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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [Män som hatar kvinnor] **** (2009, Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Ewa Fröling) – Classic Movie Review 6100

Director Niels Arden Oplev’s 2009 Swedish thriller based on the first of Stieg Larsson’s series of novels about the disgraced financial campaigning journalist Mikael Blomkvist  (Michael Nyqvist) and the troubled, tattooed young computer hacker Lisbeth […]

Oct, 17

The Monster *** (1925, Lon Chaney Sr, Johnny Arthur, Gertrude Olmstead, Hallam Cooley) – Classic Movie Review 5,857

Lon Chaney Sr enjoys himself in the 1925 silent horror comedy film The Monster as Dr Ziska, a renegade mad scientist carrying out experiments resurrecting dead bodies but finds he needs more ‘blud’. Lon Chaney […]

Aug, 05

Stir of Echoes ***½ (1999, Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Zachary David Cope, Illeana Douglas, Kevin Dunn) – Classic Movie Review 4823

Kevin Bacon stars in Stir of Echoes (1999) as cynical Chicago phone lineman labourer Tom Witzky, who challenges his sister-in law Lisa (Illeana Douglas) to hypnotise him, and finds himself given a sixth sense as a […]

Dec, 30

The Stranglers of Bombay *** (1959, Guy Rolfe, Allan Cuthbertson, Andrew Cruickshank, Marne Maitland, Jan Holden) – Movie Review 3281

Director Terence Fisher’s intriguing and quite chilling 1959 Hammer Films adventure/horror movie stars Guy Rolfe, Allan Cuthbertson, Andrew Cruickshank, Marne Maitland, Jan Holden, George Pastell, Paul Stassino, Tutte Lemkow, David Spenser, Ewen Solon and Roger […]

Jan, 18

L’Avventura ***** (1960, Monica Vitti, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lea Massari) – Classic Movie Review 2,839

Enigmatic beauty Monica Vitti stars gracefully in one of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni’s most famous films, L’Avventura (1960). Lea Massari plays the young woman who disappears during a boating trip in the Mediterranean. Enigmatic beauty Monica […]

Aug, 22

Gone Girl ***** (2014, Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Kim Dickens, Carrie Coon) – Movie Review

Director David Fincher’s excellent, super-edgy thriller is continually engrossing and surprising. Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne, the husband who comes home to find his wife is missing, Rosamund Pike as the troubled wife and Kim Dickens as […]

Sep, 27

The Wicker Man ***** (1973, Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, Britt Ekland, Lindsay Kemp, Aubrey Morris) – Classic Movie Review 179

Robin Hardy got together with writer Anthony Shaffer in 1973 to make this hugely imaginative, intelligent and chillingly scary horror film about the celebration of paganism on a remote Scottish island called Summerisle. Début director […]

Aug, 21

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