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Escobar – Paradise Lost ***½ (2015, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Hutcherson, Claudia Traisac) – Movie Review

Josh Hutcherson stars as a young Canadian surfer who goes to live on the paradise beach in Colombia with his brother (Brady Corbet), and meets Maria (Claudia Traisac), the woman of his dreams. But then heaven turns into […]

Aug, 20

Thief [Violent Streets] **** (1981, James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, James Belushi, Robert Prosky, Dennis Farina) – Classic Movie Review 2714

Writer-director Michael Mann’s intriguing and involving 1981 neo-noir heist thriller Thief is his cinema début as director after the TV movie The Jericho Mile in 1979. It showcases a rich and riveting James Caan performance […]

Jul, 17

Suicide Kings **** (1997, Christopher Walken, Denis Leary, Sean Patrick Flanery) – Classic Movie Review 2609

Christopher Walken stars as New York crime boss Charles Bennett, who is kidnapped from his favourite restaurant by four rich boys (Sean Patrick Flanery, Jay Mohr, Jeremy Sisto, Henry Thomas) and awakes to find himself […]

Jun, 17

Charley Varrick ***** (1973, Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Jacqueline Scott, Felicia Farr, Andy Robinson, John Vernon, Sheree North, Norman Fell) – Classic Movie Review 2,581

Don Siegel’s gritty 1973 neo-noir crime thriller Charley Varrick is a total humdinger, with Walter Matthau as an ex-stunt pilot who accidentally lifts a Mafia fortune. Joe Don Baker is a great villain as the […]

Jun, 10

The Juror ** (1996, Demi Moore, Alec Baldwin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – Classic Movie Review 1819

Director Brian Gibson’s 1996 thriller is tedious and artificial, with no relation to reality or real-life lives. Alec Baldwin stars as The Teacher, a crazed mob killer who falls for a juror called Annie Laird […]

Nov, 08

Salvatore Giuliano ***** (1961, Salvo Randone, Frank Wolff) – Classic Movie Review 1705

Co-writer/director Francesco Rosi’s astonishing, eye-opening 1961 Italian classic provides a dark and complex portrait of Sicilian politics after World War Two, centring round its starting point in 1950 when the famous Sicilian 28-year-old guerrilla leader and outlaw […]

Sep, 23

Analyze That ** (2002, Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal) – Classic Movie Review 1003

Robert De Niro’s waiting to make you laugh, but the wait may be longer than you think in director Harold Ramis’s clumsy 2002 sequel to the 1999 hit Analyze This. Cuddly crook Mobster Paul Vitti (De […]

Mar, 27

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