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Slander *** (1957, Van Johnson, Ann Blyth, Steve Cochran) – Classic Movie Review 8910

Director Roy Rowland’s 1957 black and white film noir crime thriller Slander stars Steve Cochran as slick publisher H R Manley, whose notoriously sleazy gossip scandal magazine blackmails TV children’s entertainer star Scott Ethan Martin […]

Sep, 17

Barbarosa **** (1982, Willie Nelson, Gary Busey, Isela Vega, Gilbert Roland, George Voskovec) – Classic Movie Review 8897

Director Fred Schepisi’s spirited 1982 Western film Barbarosa is made with conviction by Australian director Schepisi in the traditional manner but with Eighties arty overtones. Barbarosa is well cast, with country singer Willie Nelson charismatic […]

Sep, 11

Bait *** (2019, Edward Rowe, Mary Woodvine, Simon Shepherd, Giles King) – Movie Review

Writer/ director Mark Jenkin’s Bait (2019) is a bold independent experimental film focusing on a brother brother conflict and the clash between tourism and the old fishing boat values down old Cornwall way. It runs […]

Aug, 25

Crawl *** (2019, Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Morfydd Clark) – Movie Review

Director Alexandre Aja’s dark, gory and nasty horror movie Crawl (2019) has not a single laugh until after it is finished at the end credits, but it still manages to be a lot of unpleasant […]

Aug, 24

Bliss **** (1985, Barry Otto, Lynette Curran, Helen Jones) – Classic Movie Review 8817

Director Ray Lawrence’s 1985 provocative Australian fantasy comedy drama Bliss is an Australian Film Institute Best Film/ Best Director/ Best Adapted Screenplay-winner about an adman who tries to shake himself to life again after the […]

Aug, 11

Stuber * (2019, Dave Bautista, Kumail Nanjiani, Iko Uwais, Mira Sorvino) – Movie Review

The contrived crime action comedy Stuber is loud, brash, fast paced and dynamic, but dismayingly disagreeable and unappealing, violent and vulgar. The action is violent and the comedy is vulgar. An Uber driver comedy is, marginally, […]

Jul, 20

Midsommar **** (2019, Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Will Poulter, Vilhelm Blomgren) – Movie Review

Writer/director Ari Aster’s Midsommar (2019) is quite a nasty, unpleasant experience, but it keeps the faith to being an actual horror film, is very, very smart, both script-wise and visually, and stays hauntingly in the mind […]

Jul, 06

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