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The Irishman ***** (2019, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci) – Movie Review
Director Martin Scorsese is on fire for his 2019 mob crime thriller The Irishman – and so is his screen-writer Steven Zaillian, carving out a really brilliant, scintillating screenplay from Charles Brandt’s book. Even so, […]
The Trap *** (1959, Richard Widmark, Lee J Cobb, Tina Louise, Earl Holliman) – Classic Movie Review 9016
Co-writer/ co-producer/ director Norman Panama’s 1959 action crime thriller The Trap [The Baited Trap] stars Lee J Cobb as low-life law-breaker Victor Massonetti, a wanted mobster who is attempting to hide from the cops before […]
The Kitchen *** (2019, Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss, Domhnall Gleeson) – Movie Review
Writer-director Andrea Berloff’s devious 2019 mob movie The Kitchen starts out like Widows, with the three wives of gangsters in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen in the late Seventies, forced by being broke to operate their […]
Mr Majestyk **** (1974, Charles Bronson, Linda Cristal, Al Lettieri, Lee Purcell, Paul Koslo) – Classic Movie Review 8320
The 1974 Mr Majestyk is one of Charles Bronson’s most effective action thrillers thanks to Richard Fleischer’s buzzing direction and Elmore Leonard’s playful but tough original thriller screenplay. It is Bronson’s only cinema movie written […]
The Frightened City *** (1961, Herbert Lom, Sean Connery, John Gregson, Alfred Marks, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Holt, Kenneth Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 8052
The frightened city is London, where unexpectedly they are behaving just like in Chicago, as mobsters join a protection syndicate then fall out when gang boss Harry Foulcher (Alfred Marks) establishes a mafia of his […]
The Naked Street ** (1955, Farley Granger, Anthony Quinn, Anne Bancroft, Peter Graves) – Classic Movie Review 7992
Writer-director Maxwell Shane’s 1955 The Naked Street is a rather limp and clichéd crime-romance film noir melodrama starring Farley Granger as Nicky Bradna, a small-time hood involved in ugly crimes and a doomed romance with Rosalie […]
Murder by Contract **** (1958, Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi) – Classic Movie Review 7,607
The outstanding 1958 B-movie film noir crime thriller Murder by Contract stars Vince Edwards, cast against type as an existentialist hit man. Martin Scorsese praised its ‘economy of style’ and named it ‘the film that […]