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The Ipcress File ***** (1965, Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, Sue Lloyd, Gordon Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 2418
Director Sidney J Furie’s modishly stylish 1965 spy thriller The Ipcress File showcases Michael Caine, who gives one of his most famous, iconic Sixties performances as bespectacled Cockney secret agent Harry Palmer. It was immensely […]
Kill the Messenger ***½ (2014, Jeremy Renner, Rosemarie DeWitt, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Andy Garcia, Ray Liotta, Lucas Hedges) – Movie Review
Jeremy Renner is excellent in an intense, low-key performance as the real-life Gary Webb, a San Jose Mercury News journalist reporter who in 1996 exposes the CIA’s role in importing cocaine into California to raise funds […]
Taken ***** (2008, Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen) – Classic Movie Review 2199
Liam Neeson is great as retired CIA agent Bryan Mills, who travels to France and uses his old skills to save his 17-year-old estranged daughter Kim (Maggie Grace, actually 25), when she is kidnapped with her friend while on a […]
Knock Off *** (1998, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Paul Sorvino, Rob Schneider, Lela Rochon) – Classic Movie Review 2085
Director Tsui Hark’s 1998 movie, set in Hong Kong, is one of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s better all-action thrillers. Van Damme stars as Marcus Ray, a fashion designer who is drawn into a black market conspiracy […]
Agent Cody Banks *** (2003, Frankie Muniz, Ian McShane, Arnold Vosloo, Hilary Duff, Angie Harmon, Martin Donovan, Cynthia Stevenson, Daniel Roebuck, Keith David) – Classic Movie Review 1916
Director Harald Zwart’s 2003 teen comedy is a pleasant vehicle for TV’s Malcolm in the Middle’s Frankie Muniz , who stars as a spy kid CIA agent hired by a slinky sexpot (Angie Harmon) to […]
A Most Wanted Man *** (2014, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright, Willem Dafoe, Daniel Brühl) – Movie Review
In another glum and dour adaptation of a John le Carré novel, a brutally tortured Chechen-Russian Muslim immigrant called Issa Karpov turns up illegally in Hamburg’s Islamic community, claiming his father’s ill-gotten fortune. The spy game […]
Transformers: Age of Extinction *** (2014, Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, T J Miller, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer) – Movie Review
Transformers 4 is an awesome but soul-less juggernaut of a stonking, barn-storming action thriller, cruelly dumping the nice original cast after 2014’s Transformers: Age of Extinction, and instead randomly employing today’s favourite action star Mark Wahlberg as widowed […]