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Analyze This **** (1999, Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal) – Classic Movie Review 345
Director Harold Ramis’s 1999 laughter-raiser is a hilarious Mafia comedy, with Robert De Niro deliciously sending up his Don Vito Corleone role in The Godfather: Part II (1974) and Billy Crystal ideally cast as the nervous […]
Angels with Dirty Faces ***** (1938, James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Billy Halop, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall) – Classic Movie Review 295
Oscar-nominated James Cagney sizzles in one of his most archetypal performances as William ‘Rocky’ Sullivan, a poor New York Lower East Side kid who grows up to be a gangster admired by a gang of […]
Classe Tous Risques [The Big Risk] ***** (1960, Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marcel Dalio) – Classic Movie Review 236
Lino Ventura is perfect as a doomed anti-hero in Claude Sautet’s bleak, tough 1960 French film noir-style gangster film Classe Tous Risques [The Big Risk]. Sandra Milo plays a young actress befriended by a young […]
Once Upon a Time in America ***** (1984, Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci. Burt Young, Tuesday Weld, Treat Williams, Danny Aiello) – Classic Movie Review 139
In his final film, Sergio Leone’s great 1984 epic Once Upon a Time in America is a gargantuan gangster movie that follows the fortunes of a couple of friends who make a pact to share […]
Some Like It Hot ***** (1959, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe, Joe E Brown, George Raft, Pat O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 97
Billy Wilder’s 1959 film Some Like It Hot offers a comic take on the St Valentine’s Day Massacre, building a mountain of gags round a hilarious story of two musicians in drag fleeing gangsters by […]
Shoot the Pianist [Tirez sur le Pianist] **** (1960, Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier, Albert Rémy, Serge Davri, Claude Mansard, Daniel Boulanger) – Classic Movie Review 93
François Truffaut turns David Goodis’s thriller novel Down There into an exuberant, quirky, stylish personal take on the Hollywood B-movie thriller for his second feature, the 1960 film Tirez sur le Pianist [Shoot the Pianist]. […]
GoodFellas ***** (1990, Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino) – Classic Movie Review 58
Director Martin Scorsese employs Robert De Niro in 1990 for the sixth time in his 30-year real-life gangster epic GoodFellas, one of his key masterworks. It motors on the sizzling Oscar-nominated screenplay he co-wrote with Nicholas […]