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Farewell, My Lovely [Murder, My Sweet] ***** (1944, Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley) – Classic Movie Review 739
The 1944 American film noir Farewell, My Lovely [Murder, My Sweet] stars Dick Powell in the first film to feature Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled private detective Philip Marlowe. ‘A Sensational Triumph for the NEW Dick Powell.’ […]
The Maltese Falcon ***** (1941, Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre) – Classic Movie Review 722
John Huston’s 1941 classic The Maltese Falcon is a movie masterpiece of film noir, lovingly derived from Dashiell Hammett’s renowned detective thriller novel. Humphrey Bogart relishes one of his most iconic roles as the gumshoe […]
Don’t Look Now ***** (1973, Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato, Renato Scarpa, Leopoldo Trieste) – Classic Movie Review 681
The dazzling, chilling and eerily disturbing 1973 pyschic chiller Don’t Look Now, based on Daphne du Maurier’s story, is easily esteemed British director Nicolas Roeg’s most popular and successfully realised film. A perfectly paired Julie […]
Lucky Number Slevin **** (2006, Josh Hartnett, Ben Kingsley, Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis, Lucy Liu, Stanley Tucci) – Classic Movie Review 647
Mr Goodkat: ‘Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest in Monte Carlo and came in third. That’s a story.’ Just the right, cultish cast is assembled for the tough and brilliant 2006 thriller […]
Number Seventeen **** (1932, John Stuart, Anne Grey, Leon M Lion) – Classic Movie Review 573
John Stuart stars as police detective Gilbert Fordyce, who is searching for a necklace and is on the trail of a gang of clever jewel thieves who stole it, in Alfred Hitchcock’s vintage 1932 British […]
Catwoman ** (2004, Halle Berry, Sharon Stone, Benjamin Bratt, Lambert Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 567
Directed by Pitof in 2004, this Batman spinoff, using the comic book characters of Bob Kane, was eagerly awaited but turned out to be only passable and a bit of a damp squib. Inheriting the mantle […]
Insomnia **** (2002, Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank) – Classic Movie Review 472
Director Christopher Nolan’s 2002 movie is a distinguished, creepy remake of Erik Skjoldbjærg’s 1997 Norwegian psychological thriller Insomnia that starred Stellan Skarsgård. This time it is Al Pacino’s turn to look tired. That’s because he hasn’t had […]