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Anything for Her [Pour elle] **** (2008, Vincent Lindon, Diane Kruger, Lancelot Roch) – Classic Movie Review 3837

Bit by bit German star Diane Kruger has overcome her casting as just another pretty face as Helen in Troy back in 2004. Though her international breakthrough didn’t happen, she is still in the game, […]

Jun, 11

I Didn’t Do It **½ (1945, George Formby, Dennis Wyndham, Hilda Mundy, Gaston Palmer, Jack Daly, Carl Jaffe) – Classic Movie Review 3822

For this British comedy crime film, Marcel Varnel directs George Formby in 1945 – and fairly well and amusingly too, especially for a comedy from Formby’s period of decline. Formby stars as entertainer George Trotter who […]

Jun, 08

Dead Man’s Curve *** (1998, Matthew Lillard, Michael Vartan, Randall Batinkoff, Keri Russell) – Classic Movie Review 3,816

Scream’s young star Matthew Lillard again shows off his acting skills effectively in writer-director Dan Rosen’s engrossingly twisting and teasing 1998 American black comedy teen thriller film Dead Man’s Curve [The Curve]. The clever, twisty plot […]

Jun, 07

Tightrope **** (1984, Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya) – Classic Movie Review 3815

Writer-director Richard Tuggle’s 1984 thriller is admittedly nasty and violent, but it also exciting, tense and suspenseful – and an underestimated, perhaps often misunderstood movie. It is rated R for strong sexuality, nudity, terror, violence and […]

Jun, 06

The Dead Pool ** (1988, Clint Eastwood, Patricia Clarkson, Liam Neeson) – Classic Movie Review 3813

Clint Eastwood said: ‘It’s fun, once in a while, to have a character you can go back to. It’s like revisiting an old friend you haven’t seen for a long time. You figure I’ll go […]

Jun, 06

The Enforcer [Murder, Inc] **** (1951, Humphrey Bogart, Everett Sloane, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia) – Classic Movie Review 3,809

The first-rate 1951 film noir thriller The Enforcer [Murder, Inc] finds Humphrey Bogart on top form as crusading district attorney Martin Ferguson doggedly on the trail of crime boss Albert Mendoza (Everett Sloane) and his […]

Jun, 06

Le Doulos ***** (1962, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly) – Classic Movie Review 3802

Writer-director Jean-Pierre Melville’s shadowy, twisting and disturbing 1962 French neo noir gangster thriller Le Doulos is adapted from the novel by Pierre Lesou. It takes its power and modernity from being a profoundly cynical and […]

Jun, 05

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