Recent Posts
- Hard Boiled **** (1992, Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung, Teresa Mo, Philip Chan, Anthony Wong, Philip Kwok, Bowie Lam, Kwan Hoi-san) – Classic Movie Review 13,866
- Hammer the Toff *** (1952, John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, Valentine Dyall) – Classic Movie Review 13,865
- Scream 4 [SCRE4M] ** (2011, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Hayden Panettiere, Anthony Anderson, Alison Brie, Adam Brody, Rory Culkin) – Classic Movie Review 13,864
- Best zombie movies
- King of the Zombies *** (1941, Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland, Henry Victor, John Archer) – Classic Movie Review 13,863
- The Lamp in Assassin Mews *** (1962, Francis Matthews, Lisa Daniely, Ian Fleming, Amy Dalby) – Classic Movie Review 13,862
- Strange River [Estrany riu] **** (2025, Jan Monter, Nausicaa Bonnín, Jordi Oriol, Francesco Wenz, Bernat Solé, Roc Colell) – Classic Movie Review 13,861
- The Last First Time [El fin de las primeras veces] *** (2025, Alejandro Quintana, Jaime Bernache, Erick Guillen Torres) – Classic Movie Review 13,860
- Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1992, Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Janet McTeer, Sophie Ward, Simon Shepherd, Jeremy Northam, Simon Ward) – Classic Movie Review 13,859
- Wuthering Heights [Abismos de pasión] ***(1954, Jorge Mistral, Irasema Dilián) – Classic Movie Review 13,858
Posts Tagged "murder"
Check out all of the posts tagged with "murder".
Suspect **** (1987, Cher, Dennis Quaid, Liam Neeson, John Mahoney, Joe Mantegna, Philip Bosco) – Classic Movie Review 6501
Director Peter Yates follows up his Eyewitness (1981) in 1987 with another top-notch thriller in similar vein. It boasts charismatic performances by Cher as public defender Kathleen Riley, Liam Neeson as her client Carl Anderson, a […]
Eyewitness [The Janitor] **** (1981, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer) – Classic Movie Review 6500
Producer-director Peter Yates’s first-class 1981 thriller is extremely moody, atmospheric, neat and tense throughout. The screenplay is convincingly written by Steve Tesich. The young William Hurt is at his best as the Vietnam War vet and Manhattan […]
The Organization ** (1971, Sidney Poitier, Barbara McNair, Sheree North, Gerald S O’Loughlin, Raul Julia, Allen Garfield, Ron O’Neal) – Classic Movie Review 6480
Director Don Medford’s 1971 routine second sequel thriller brings Sidney Poitier back for the third and last time as San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs, the upright cop from 1967’s In the Heat of the Night. […]
The Man Behind the Gun ** (1953, Randolph Scott, Patrice Wymore, Dick Wesson) – Classic Movie Review 6437
‘An Easy-Going Gent with Deadly Guns…and a Reputation to Match!’ Randolph Scott stars as handsome US Cavalry officer, Major Ransome Callicut, who goes undercover to pose as a teacher, subdues an Indian uprising and founds Los […]
Rhapsody in August [Hachi-gatsu no rapusodî] **** (1991, Sachiko Murasé, Hisashi Igawa, Richard Gere) – Classic Movie Review 6424
Writer-director Akira Kurosawa’s small-scale 1991 Japanese film made in his old age at 81 tackles all the big subjects – the bomb, war guilt, forgiveness, life, death, the future and the whole darned thing. Kurosawa’s screenplay […]
A Free Soul *** (1931, Lionel Barrymore, Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Clark Gable) – Classic Movie Review 6420
Director Clarence Brown’s creaky but enjoyable 1931 courtroom crime romantic drama is most memorable for its cast – Lionel Barrymore, Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard and Clark Gable – and for Barrymore taking the Best Actor Oscar. […]
Angel Face ****½ (1953, Jean Simmons, Robert Mitchum, Herbert Marshall, Barbara O’Neil, Leon Ames, Mona Freeman) – Classic Movie Review 6,397
Jean Simmons stars on her most outrageously malicious form as Diane Tremayne, the dangerously psychopathic young woman with the sensuous angel face, in the ferocious 1953 film noir melodrama 1953 Angel Face. Angel Face is […]