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Taken 3 *** (2014, Liam Neeson, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace, Jonny Weston, Dougray Scott) – Movie Review

Liam Neeson returns for a third and final time as ex-government operative Bryan Mills, who is framed for murder and must track down the real killers, in the 2014 French action thriller Taken 3. Liam […]

Jan, 06

Jade ** (1995, David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, Chazz Palminteri) – Classic Movie Review 2038

Director William Friedkin’s trashy 1995 thriller stars David Caruso, whose bright, intense TV talent is over-exposed here on the big screen, playing David Corelli, a bright assistant district attorney investigating a nasty hatchet killing among San […]

Jan, 02

Gothika **½ (2004, Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, Robert Downey Jr) – Classic Movie Review 2032

Director Mathieu Kassovitz’s moody and interesting 2004 horror movie stars Halle Berry as Dr Miranda Grey, a repressed jail psychiatrist who ends up in one of her own cells after she has stopped her car […]

Jan, 02

Essex Boys * (2000, Sean Bean, Charlie Creed-Miles, Alex Kingston, Tom Wilkinson) – Classic Movie Review 1995

Co-writer- director Terri Winsor’s 2000 thriller stars Sean Bean, who plays, very unconvincingly, a violent Essex cabbie called Jason Locke, who falls on hard times and tries to make ends meet by becoming the personal […]

Dec, 23

Devil in a Blue Dress ****½ (1995, Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals) – Classic Movie Review 1954

Writer-director Carl Franklin’s Chandler-esque 1995 neo-noir whodunit provides a perfect role for Denzel Washington, who is great as 40s LA private eye Easy Rawlins. Based on the novel by Walter Mosley, this is a superbly […]

Dec, 14

High Anxiety **** (1977, Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman) – Classic Movie Review 1,940

Billed as a ‘Psycho-comedy’, Mel Brooks’s hectic and hilarious 1977 spoof comedy film High Anxiety is a warm and affectionate toast to Alfred Hitchcock. Billed as a ‘Psycho-comedy’, co-writer director Mel Brooks’s engagingly hectic and hilarious 1977 […]

Dec, 09

The Long Goodbye **** (1973, Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden, Nina Van Pallandt) – Classic Movie Review 1881

Robert Altman’s revisionist 1973 neo-noir film of Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel is expectedly updated to the Seventies but unexpectedly stars a laconic Elliott Gould as the hardboiled but chivalrous and honourable private eye Philip Marlowe. […]

Nov, 24

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