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Halloween: Resurrection * (2002, Jamie Lee Curtis, Busta Rhymes, Tyra Banks, Brad Loree) – Classic Movie Review 4242

Director Rick Rosenthal’s 2002 eighth Halloween movie brings Jamie Lee Curtis back as Laurie Strode (if only briefly) and reunites her with her director on Halloween 2 (1981). This time Brad Loree plays the unstoppable […]

Aug, 26

Sudden Impact ** (1983, Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, Bradford Dillman) – Classic Movie Review 3812

Producer-director-star Clint Eastwood’s suddenly much lower-impact 1983 action thriller is the fourth Dirty Harry film in a steadily declining series, following Dirty Harry (1971), Magnum Force (1973) and The Enforcer  (1976). After a lengthy gap, Eastwood returns to […]

Jun, 06

The Strangler *** (1963, Victor Buono, David McLean, Ellen Corby, Diane Sayer, Jeanne Bates) – Classic Movie Review 3760

Victor Buono, fresh from his success in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), is creepily effective as lab technician Leo Kroll, a mountainous, mother-mad maniac who bumps off nurses in director Burt Topper’s cheaply made, but gripping […]

May, 28

Danger: Diabolik **** (1968, John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli, Adolfo Celi, Terry-Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 3,528

Mario Bava’s bravura 1968 Italian live-action comic-book crime film Danger: Diabolik stars the engaging John Phillip Law as black-clad master thief Diabolik. Mario Bava’s bravura 1968 Italian live-action comic book film Danger: Diabolik stars the […]

Apr, 04

And Then There Were None ***** (1945, Walter Huston, Barry Fitzgerald, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, Richard Haydn, Judith Anderson, June Duprez, C Aubrey Smith) – Classic Movie Review 3,264

Director René Clair turns Agatha Christie’s classic mystery novel and play into the richly stylish 1945 American black comedy mystery thriller film And Then There Were None. French film director René Clair turns Agatha Christie’s […]

Jan, 13

The Invisible Ray *** (1936, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake, Frank Lawton, Walter Kingsford, Beulah Bondi) – Classic Movie Review 2,675

‘Beware the Luminous Man!’ Universal Pictures’ 1936 movie The Invisible Ray teams the great horror icons Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in one of their eight films together. Beware the Luminous Man! Director Lambert Hillyer’s […]

Jul, 06

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery *** (1939, Leslie Banks, Greta Gynt, Esmond Knight) – Classic Movie Review 2455

Leslie Banks gives a good, solid and splendidly offbeat star performance as Detective Inspector Anthony Slade, an oddball Scotland Yard policeman, in director Thorold Dickinson’s fair, fun 1939 little British murder mystery thriller. It is notable as […]

May, 04

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