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Jack the Ripper *** (1988, Michael Caine, Armand Assante, Ray McAnally, Susan George, Jane Seymour, Lewis Collins) – Classic Movie Review 5190

For writer-director David Wickes’s excellent 1988 two-part mini-series Jack the Ripper, Michael Caine returns to TV as Chief Inspector Fred Abberline, the boozy Scotland Yard man who investigates the notorious 1888 East End serial killer […]

Mar, 22

The Vision *** (1987, Dirk Bogarde, Lee Remick, Eileen Atkins) – Classic Movie Review 4870

Director Norman Stone’s 1987 TV movie stars Dirk Bogarde, who brings his distinctive touch to the part of veteran broadcaster James Marriner, ‘Gentle Jim’, an ex-TV newsman lured into the spider’s web of an evangelical […]

Jan, 09

The Groundstar Conspiracy ***½ (1972, George Peppard, Michael Sarrazin, Christine Belford, Cliff Potts, James Olson) – Classic Movie Review 4,709

George Peppard and Michael Sarrazin enliven the gripping, suspenseful 1972 action mystery thriller film The Groundstar Conspiracy about dirty work at a secret space-research plant. George Peppard and Michael Sarrazin enliven director Lamont Johnson’s intriguing […]

Nov, 27

Valkyrie *** (2008, Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Carice van Houten, Tom Wilkinson, Kenneth Branagh) – Classic Movie Review 4424

There was bad word of mouth when that most American of actors Tom Cruise decided to play war-wounded German colonel Claus von Stauffenberg in 2008’s Valkyrie, apparently attracted to the role after seeing a picture […]

Sep, 27

Coma **** (1978, Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Rip Torn, Richard Widmark, Lois Chiles, Elizabeth Ashley, Tom Selleck, Ed Harris) – Classic Movie Review 4142

Writer-director Michael Crichton’s hit 1978 medical thriller is 110% all it needs to be, tense, suspenseful, unusually unsettling and particularly satisfying. An ideally cast Geneviève Bujold is really effective as a feisty and intrepid junior […]

Aug, 08

Soylent Green ***** (1973, Charlton Heston, Edward G Robinson, Joseph Cotten, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Brock Peters, Paula Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 4041

Charlton Heston, Edward G Robinson, Joseph Cotten, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Brock Peters and Paula Kelly head the strong cast for director Richard Fleischer’s exciting, intelligent and well-crafted 1973 dystopian sci-fi movie Soylent Green. Its story […]

Jul, 18

Brotherhood of the Wolf [Le Pacte des Loups] **** (2001, Samuel Le Bihan, Mark Dacascos, Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Emilie Dequenne) – Classic Movie Review 4003

A naturalist, Chevalier Gregoire de Fronsac (Samuel Le Bihan), and his Iroquois hunter buddy Mani (Mark Dacascos) are sent to track down a beast killing folk in the 18th-century French countryside. Co-writer/ director Christophe Gans’s […]

Jul, 12

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