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Levity ** (2003, Billy Bob Thornton, Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter, Kirsten Dunst) – Classic Movie Review 7673

Director Ed Solomon’s intelligent, well-made 2003 crime drama Levity finds Billy Bob Thornton working hard and effectively as Manuel Jordan, an ex-con looking for redemption after killing a teen while carrying out a robbery 20 […]

Oct, 18

Night Owls ** (1930, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Edgar Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 7406

Director James Parrott’s 1930 comedy short film Night Owls is the first film to use Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s celebrated theme tune, ‘The Ku-Ku Song’, written by Marvin Hatley. Edgar Kennedy plays a bungling local […]

Aug, 05

Assault on a Queen * (1966, Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa) – Classic Movie Review 7076

Virna Lisi and Alf Kjellin star as Eurocrooks Rosa Lucchesi and Eric Lauffnauer, who employ Mark Brittain (Frank Sinatra) to lead a band of treasure hunting conmen to reuse a recovered refloated old wartime German submarine to […]

May, 21

The Driver **** (1978, Ryan O’Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani) – Classic Movie Review 7,048

Walter Hill’s beautifully crafted, dazzlingly stylised 1978 film noir crime action thriller The Driver stars Ryan O’Neal at his melancholic brooding best as the sharpest getaway man in the robbery business. Writer-director Walter Hill’s second […]

May, 13

Beverly Hills Cop II ** (1987, Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Jürgen Prochnow, Ronnie Cox, Allen Garfield, Brigitte Nielsen, Dean Stockwell) – Classic Movie Review 6650

Eddie Murphy’s energy and charm are severely tested on director Tony Scott’s extremely inferior 1987 sequel to 1984’s great hit Beverly Hills Cop. Predictably, Scott mostly dumps the original’s comedy element in favour of unsubtle strong […]

Feb, 04

The Brink’s Job *** (1978, Peter Falk, Warren Oates, Peter Boyle, Allen Garfield, Gena Rowlands, Paul Sorvino) – Classic Movie Review 6,508

Director William Friedkin’s often exciting 1978 true crime heist movie The Brink’s Job is based on the real-life American ‘crime of the century’ in 1950 when nearly $3 million was snatched by amateurs in an […]

Jan, 01

I Died a Thousand Times *** (1955, Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson, Lon Chaney Jr, Lee Marvin, Earl Holliman) – Classic Movie Review 6443

An iconic Fifties cast adds huge allure to the intriguing 1955 cult crime thriller I Died a Thousand Times, the second remake of High Sierra, a film noir shot in CinemaScope and Warnercolor. Director Stuart […]

Dec, 20

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