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Le Samouraï [The Samurai] ***** (1967, Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, François Périer) – Classic Movie Review 2818

Jean-Pierre Melville’s austere 1967 neo noir gangster movie Le Samouraï motors on Alain Delon’s enigmatic star turn and Henri Decaë’s stark cinematography in Eastmancolor. ‘There is no solitude greater than a samurai’s, unless perhaps it is […]

Aug, 16

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

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan ** (1989, Jensen Daggett, Kane Hodder, Todd Caldecott ) – Classic Movie Review 1817

Friday the 13th Part VIII is a typically bloody and repetitious stalk and slash horror movie, in which stowaway hockey masked serial killer Jason Voorhees (again played by Kane Hodder) systematically tries to murder an entire graduating […]

Nov, 07

Brighton Rock ***** (1947, Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Alan Wheatley, Carol Marsh) – Classic Movie Review 724

Richard Attenborough gives an inspired, chilling performance as the psychotic young tearaway Pinkie Brown in the Boulting Brothers’ marvellous 1947 film version of Graham Greene’s classic novel Brighton Rock. The 24-year-old Richard Attenborough gives an […]

Jan, 19

The Shining ***** (1980, Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, Anne Jackson, Joe Turkel, Philip Stone) – Classic Movie Review 85

Jack Nicholson’s barnstorming, grandstanding performance dominates Stanley Kubrick’s superlative 1980 chiller The Shining, based (remotely) on the Stephen King novel. Nicholson plays Jack Torrance, a slick but rather seedy loser who is hired by smooth […]

Jul, 24

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