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9 Fingers [9 doigts] * (2017, Damien Bonnard, Diogo Dória, Elvire, Damien Bonnard, Gaspard Ulliel) – Movie Review
Paul Hamy stars in writer-director F J Ossang’s pretentious, alienating art movie as a man called Magloire who is on the run with no luggage or purpose till he meets a dying man who gives him a […]
Riot in Cell Block 11 **** (1954, Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen, Leo Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 5657
Director Don Siegel’s masterly 1954 prison drama is low on budget but high on social concern and urgency as a plea for reform of the American prison system and conditions in US jails. It is […]
The Fast and the Furious **½ (1955, John Ireland, Dorothy Malone, Bruce Carlisle) – Classic Movie Review 5292
Producer Roger Corman said: ‘John Ireland appeared in The Fast and the Furious (1955) only on the condition he could direct it. He did a fine job directing on a nine-day shoot with a budget […]
Funny Games *** (2007, Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart) – Classic Movie Review 5220
Michael Pitt plays another of his twisted and troubled characters as Paul in director Michael Haneke’s alienating shot-by-shot English-language remake of his Austrian original Funny Games (1997). Pitt and Brady Corbet play a couple of young, articulate, white-gloved psychos, […]
Certain Women **** (2016, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Lily Gladstone, Jared Harris, James Le Gros, Rene Auberjonois) – Movie Review
Writer-director Kelly Reichardt hauntingly brings some of Maile Meloy’s stories to the screen in three inter-connected yarns in which the lives of four women intersect in the small-town America on Montana. It stars Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern and Lily […]
The Taking of Pelham 123 *** (2009, Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzmán, John Turturro, James Gandolfini) – Classic Movie Review 4634
Director Tony Scott relentlessly ensures that his remake of the classic 1974 heist thriller The Taking of Pelham 123 is slick, tense, fast moving and flashy. Based on the novel by John Godey, it is all about […]
Inside Man **** (2006, Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor) – Classic Movie Review 4516
New York cop Detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) is engaged in a risky game of cat and mouse with smooth criminal Dalton Russell (Clive Owen), leader of a gang of robbers disguised in painters’ outfits, who storm […]