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Home at Seven [Murder on Monday] *** (1952, Ralph Richardson, Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins, Meriel Forbes) – Classic Movie Review 8121

Director Ralph Richardson’s 1952 Home at Seven [retitled Murder on Monday in the US] is a fairly compelling amnesia mystery with a theft and a murder occurring during the 24 hours a bank clerk, David […]

Feb, 12

West 11 *** (1963, Alfred Lynch, Eric Portman, Kathleen Harrison, Diana Dors, Kathleen Breck, Freda Jackson, Finlay Currie, Harold Lang) – Classic Movie Review 7766

Director Michael Winner orchestrates the atmospheric, downbeat 1963 British action crime thriller West 11 with some degree of style, helped by Otto Heller’s gritty, noir-style London location black and white photography and Keith Waterhouse and […]

Nov, 09

Mile 22 ** (2018, Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, Iko Uwais, John Malkovich, Ronda Rousey) – Movie Review

Director Peter Berg’s well-made, impressively staged, visceral action movie thriller Mile 22 is not bad but no knockout and no classic. The 18 certificate for strong bloody violence is a warning. Mile 22 is super-intense. This movie […]

Sep, 22

78/52 **** (2017) – Movie Review

Director Alexandre O Philippe dissects the Psycho shower murder scene to riveting effect, with the help of some remarkable, over-excited experts and some great vintage clips. It is, quite obviously, a film buff’s paradise, and […]

Oct, 12

BPM (Beats Per Minute) [120 battements par minute] ***** (2017, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz, Félix Maritaud) – Movie Review

Robin Campillo’s 2017 French activism film and AIDS drama BPM (Beats per Minute) is emotionally overwhelming, incredibly powerful, and truly inspiring. There shouldn’t be a dry eye in the house at the end – and […]

Oct, 07

L’Aigle à deux têtes [The Eagle with Two Heads] **** (1948, Edwige Feuillère, Jean Marais, Silvia Monfort) – Classic Movie Review 5832

Writer-director Jean Cocteau’s sumptuous, exquisitely acted 1948 French film stars Jean Marais as suicidal anarchist poet on the run Stanislas, who sneaks in to the royal bedroom of a remote castle to kill the Queen, Natasha […]

Jul, 30

Ten North Frederick ** (1958, Gary Cooper, Diane Varsi, Suzy Parker, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Tom Tully, Stuart Whitman) – Classic Movie Review 5798

Writer-director Philip Dunne’s 1958 20th Century Fox drama is based on the best-selling novel by John O’Hara. ‘JOHN O’HARA’S HOTLY-DISCUSSED BEST-SELLER…OF HOW THEY SINNED AGAINST EACH OTHER AND AGAINST THEMSELVES!’ Sounds interesting, doesn’t it? Oh, […]

Jul, 22

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