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Thoroughbreds * (2017, Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin) – Movie Review
Writer-director Cory Finley’s 2017 directorial debut Thoroughbreds, a twisted dark comedy thriller, is a thoroughly unpleasant piece of work, as are his two main characters, Amanda and Lily, posh, idle rich Connecticut teenagers, who dangerously revive their […]
Subway **** (1985, Christopher Lambert, Isabelle Adjani, Richard Bohringer, Michel Galabru, Jean-Hugues Anglade) – Classic Movie Review 6.887
Co-writer/ director Luc Besson’s impossibly stylish 1985 Paris Métro French thriller film Subway is above all great fun. Christopher Lambert won a César Award as Best Actor. The one-time Tarzan goes punk as Christopher Lambert (from […]
A Woman’s Face **** (1941, Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt) – Classic Movie Review 6080
Director George Cukor’s 1941 film noir-style thriller drama A Woman’s Face provides a quintessential vehicle for Joan Crawford as Anna Holm, a blackmailer who cannot get over the psychological damage of her face scarred in […]
Fist Fight **½ (2017, Ice Cube, Charlie Day, Tracy Morgan, Tracy Morgan, Jillian Bell, Dean Norris) – Movie Review
It’s the last day of high school, and Charlie Day stars as an easy-going, good-natured school teacher who, to save his own job, gets another (angry and erratic) teacher (Ice Cube) fired after he chops […]
War on Everyone *** (2016, Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Peña, Theo James, Tessa Thompson, Caleb Landry Jones, Paul Reiser) – Movie Review
London writer and director John Michael McDonagh’s welcome and tastily edgy but slightly off-kilter and struggling 2016 black comedy thriller re-tells the very familiar tale of two corrupt cops in New Mexico who enjoy blackmailing and […]
The Mask of Dimitrios **** (1944, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Victor Francen, Steven Geray, George Tobias) – Classic Movie Review 3,876
Warner Bros’ hugely atmospheric and entertaining 1944 classic film noir mystery crime thriller film The Mask of Dimitrios again teams the era’s most iconic star character actors Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Director Jean Negulesco’s […]
The Naked Edge ***½ (1961, Gary Cooper, Deborah Kerr, Peter Cushing, Eric Portman, Diane Cilento, Hermione Gingold, Michael Wilding, Ronald Howard) – Classic Movie Review 3847
Director Michael Anderson’s tantalising and engrossing 1961 British movie provides Gary Cooper with his final film role. It is an enjoyably convoluted, far-fetched thriller, written by Joseph Stefano, the author of Psycho, adapting Max Ehrlich’s […]