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Eastern Promises **** (2007, Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl) – Classic Movie Review 6105

Director David Cronenberg’s outstanding, nerve-shredding 2007 British-Canadian-American gangster movie crime thriller starts off running with a great screenplay written by Steven Knight. Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, and Armin Mueller-Stahl star in the story of Anna Khitrova (Watts), a […]

Oct, 18

Rancid Aluminium * (2000, Rhys Ifans, Joseph Fiennes, Tara Fitzgerald, Steven Berkoff, Sadie Frost, Keith Allen, Dani Behr, Nick Moran, Barry Foster) – Classic Movie Review 5098

Ryhs Ifans stars as Pete Thompson, whose father dies and he expects to inherit the family business. But then his crooked accountant Sean Deeny (Joseph Fiennes) plots to sell it off to a Russian mob, […]

Mar, 04

The Jackal *** (1997, Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier, Diane Venora, Mathilda May, J K Simmons) – Classic Movie Review 4893

Director Michael Caton-Jones’s capable, quite exciting 1997 action thriller is a more than satisfactory remake of The Day of the Jackal (1973), an admittedly much better film that didn’t need a remake. Richard Gere and Bruce […]

Jan, 15

Spawn of the North **** (1938, George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff, John Barrymore, Louise Platt) – Classic Movie Review 4582

Director Henry Hathaway’s all-action 1938 sea adventure about a salmon-fishing war between the Americans and Russians off Alaska is a high-spirited movie with great Alaskan glacier scenery. The outstanding special effects, sound effects and photographic […]

Nov, 03

Defiance **** (2008, Daniel Craig, Jamie Bell, Liev Schreiber, Asael Bielski, George MacKay) – Classic Movie Review 4343

Daniel Craig takes a rest from 007 to play one of three Jewish brothers who flee Nazi-occupied Poland and take refuge in the Belarussian forest. There they join Russian resistance fighters and build shelters to […]

Sep, 11

Be Cool *** (2005, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Dwayne Johnson, Vince Vaughn, Danny DeVito, Christina Milian, Harvey Keitel, Cedric the Entertainer, James Woods) – Classic Movie Review 4214

John Travolta is back in 2005 as the smooth operator Chili Palmer from 1995’s hit Get Shorty, who swaps films for the music business and gets mixed up with several different bunches of worryingly crazy […]

Aug, 21

Little Red Monkey ***½ (1955, Richard Conte, Rona Anderson, Russell Napier) – Classic Movie Review 3,890

‘THE IMPOSSIBLE CRIME. THRILLER OF THRILLERS’ Ken Hughes’s 1955 British black and white crime film Little Red Monkey is a complex, very nifty, and extremely enjoyable little Cold War espionage thriller. Richard Conte and Rona […]

Jun, 19

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