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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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Monkey Business ***** (1931, Marx Brothers, Thelma Todd, Ruth Hall) – Classic Movie Review 2156
Director Norman Z McLeod’s expert and delirious 1931 comedy stars the riotous four Marx Brothers, who are on or near their best form in their hectic and often hilarious third film. It comes close to […]
Snow in Paradise **** (2014, Frederick Schmidt, Martin Askew, David Spinx) – Movie Review
Frederick Schmidt is amazing as London East End crook Dave, who gets his best friend Tariq (Aymen Hamdouchi) killed after a drug delivery. Propelled into shame and remorse, Dave discovers Islam by chance, but the gangsters […]
Panic in the Streets ***** (1950, Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance) – Classic Movie Review 2070
Director Elia Kazan’s thought-provoking New Orleans 1950 film noir chase thriller is sizzlingly raw and realistic. It stars Richard Widmark as a medical-health-official doctor and Paul Douglas as a world-weary police captain who lead a life-or-death […]
A Most Violent Year **** (2014, Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo, Albert Brooks) – Movie Review
Recalling the young Al Pacino, no less, Oscar Isaac gives an electrifying performance as Abel Morales, an ambitious American immigrant who fights to protect his increasingly iffy business and his family during 1981, apparently the most […]
Against All Odds **** (1984, Jeff Bridges, James Woods, Rachel Ward) – Classic Movie Review 2045
Director Taylor Hackford delivers a satisfyingly twisty, fascinating 1984 neo noir remake of the classic 1947 Robert Mitchum-Jane Greer-Kirk Douglas film noir thriller Out of the Past. This time, in Against All Odds, Jeff Bridges stars […]
The Krays ***** (1990, Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Billie Whitelaw) – Classic Movie Review 1992
Director Peter Medak and brilliant screenwriter Philip Ridley bring the shocking tale of the life and crimes of the notorious, horrendous and now legendary real-life London East End gangster twins Ronald and Reginald Kray to the […]
The Gambler **** (2014, Mark Wahlberg, Jessica Lange, John Goodman) – Movie Review
Mark Wahlberg is excellent in a serious role as English lit professor and compulsive high-stakes gambler Jim Bennett. His debt forces him to borrow money from his unpleasant wealthy mother (Jessica Lange) and, when he […]