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- Hard Boiled **** (1992, Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung, Teresa Mo, Philip Chan, Anthony Wong, Philip Kwok, Bowie Lam, Kwan Hoi-san) – Classic Movie Review 13,866
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Mystic River ***** (2003, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon) – Classic Movie Review 468
Sean Penn won a well-deserved best actor Oscar as Jimmy Markum, a Boston ex-con who takes the law into his own hands when he thinks one of his childhood buddies, Dave Boyle, has murdered his teenage […]
Blackmail ***** (1929, John Longden, Anny Ondra, Cyril Ritchard) – Classic Movie Review 444
Alfred Hitchcock’s lively, imaginative 1929 pioneering thriller film Blackmail is remarkable as Britain’s first talking picture. It’s a treasured relic of a bygone era. A highly impressive piece of work considering its age and filming […]
Laura ***** (1944, Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 335
‘The story of a love that became the most fearful thing that ever happened to a woman!’ Director Otto Preminger’s glorious 1944 romantic mystery thriller Laura in the best film noir vein still exerts its […]
The Hound of the Baskervilles **** (1959, Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 313
‘It’s the picture about that bone-chilling HOWL!’ Director Terence Fisher’s 1959 vintage horror mystery The Hound of the Baskervilles is based on the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and stars Peter Cushing as Sherlock […]
The Lodger (A Story of the London Fog) ***** (1927, Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, June Tripp, Arthur Chesney, Malcolm Keen) – Classic Movie Review 274
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 silent film version of the famous 1913 novel The Lodger by Mrs Marie Belloc Lowndes is his first thriller, establishing him as a star name director. The Lodger (A Story of the […]
Prisoners ***** (2013, Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Paul Dano, Terrence Howard, Maria Bello, Dylan Minnette) – Movie Review
Hugh Jackman stars as blue-collar building worker Keller Dover, a sick-to-his-stomach and totally terrified father who crazily takes the law into his own hands when his little six-year-old young daughter Anna is suddenly abducted from […]
The Big Sleep ***** (1946, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone, Regis Toomey, Charles Waldron, Charles D Brown, Elisha Cook Jr) – Classic Movie Review 69
Director Howard Hawks turns Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled novel The Big Sleep into a brilliantly atmospheric, edge-of-seat suspenseful and exciting film noir masterpiece. Humphrey Bogart is everyone’s idea of Chandler’s cynical anti-hero, the smooth, cocksure if […]