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The Innocent Sleep *** (1996, Rupert Graves, Michael Gambon, Annabella Sciorra, Franco Nero, Oliver Cotton, Graham Crowden, John Hannah) – Classic Movie Review 2478
Director Scott Michell’s 1996 British thriller stars Rupert Graves who plays a real-life English north-country tramp called Alan Terry living homeless outside beside London’s Tower Bridge. One night he witnesses a killing, a mob execution. […]
The Mexican ** (2001, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, James Gandolfini) – Classic Movie Review 1783
Director Gore Verbinski’s intriguing but all too moderate 2001 thriller stars Brad Pitt as hapless, clumsy small-time crook Jerry Welbach, who is forced by his mob boss to retrieve a priceless pistol called The Mexican back […]
The Whole Nine Yards *** (2000, Matthew Perry, Bruce Willis, Rosanna Arquette) – Classic Movie Review 1,569
Matthew Perry is rewarded with the best possible star supporting player in Bruce Willis, in the often very funny 2000 crime comedy film The Whole Nine Yards, a weird screwball farce with a high body […]
Kangaroo Jack * (2003, Jerry O’Connell, Anthony Anderson, Christopher Walken) – Bad Movie 7
Director David McNally’s 2003 comedy for producer Jerry Bruckheimer is bad. In a lull in his brilliant career, Christopher Walken plays a Mob boss called Salvatore ‘Sal’ Maggio, who despatches his New York hairstylist stepson […]
The Asphalt Jungle ***** (1950, Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Sam Jaffe, James Whitmore, Jean Hagen, Brad Dexter, John McIntire, Marilyn Monroe) – Classic Movie Review 1351
Co-writer/ director John Huston’s compulsively watchable, realistically staged classic 1950 film noir heist movie The Asphalt Jungle is a trail-blazing thriller with the criminal scam it focuses on invigoratingly portrayed as an inside tale from […]
The Big Heat ***** (1953, Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin, Jocelyn Brando) – Classic Movie Review 738
Director Fritz Lang’s 1953 humdinger of a film-noir classic crime thriller The Big Heat sees the director and his actors shooting with all guns blazing. Glenn Ford stars as tough, maverick cop called Detective Sergeant […]
Layer Cake **** (2004, Daniel Craig) – Classic Movie Review 660
Another day, another Brit crime thriller, but this one from 2004 is quite a lot better than most. Daniel Craig stars as a drug dealer, who’s made his pile and is planning to quit the cocaine […]