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Striking Distance ** (1993, Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Farina, Tom Sizemore, John Mahoney) – Classic Movie Review 6660

Bruce Willis stars in co-writer/ director Rowdy Herrington’s dreary, by-the-numbers 1993 action thriller as a Pittsburg homicide detective called Tom Hardy who is busted down to river rescue cop after his father is killed in the […]

Feb, 07

L’Assassin Habite au 21 [The Murderer Lives at Number 21] **** (1942, Pierre Fresnay, Suzy Delair, Jean Tissier, Noël Roquevert, Pierre Larquey) – Classic Movie Review 6653

This excellent, highly sympathetic, thriller-cum-character study comedy comes from co-writer/ director Henri-Georges Clouzot, the maker of Les Diaboliques, making a strong impression with his first solo film as director. Pierre Fresnay stars as Le Commissaire […]

Feb, 05

Fallen **** (1998, Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz, James Gandolfini) – Classic Movie Review 6383

Denzel Washington is in his element as homicide detective John Hobbes, who witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese (Elias Koteas). But soon the killings start again in Reese’s style… Director Gregory Hoblit’s excellent […]

Dec, 10

Love Is Colder Than Death [Liebe ist kälter als der Tod] *** (1969, Ulli Lommel, Hanna Schygulla, Rainer Werner Fassbinder) – Classic Movie Review 6197

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s chilly and attractively unusual 1969 low budget German black-and-white film is his first feature, valuable as an interesting apprentice work of this important director. It tells a dour and doomy noir-style gangster story, as seen through […]

Nov, 06

Jigsaw * (2017, Matt Passmore, Tobin Bell, Callum Keith Rennie, Hannah Emily Anderson, Clé Bennett) – Movie Review

Eleanor Bonneville: ‘It’s Jigsaw.’ Logan Nelson: ‘Jigsaw’s dead.’ Eleanor Bonneville: ‘Is he?’ The Spierig Brothers’ tediously gruesome and grisly reboot of the Saw franchise is as disgusting and revolting as it is stale and pointless. […]

Oct, 28

Grip of the Strangler [The Haunted Strangler] *** (1958, Boris Karloff, Elizabeth Allan, Jean Kent, Vera Day, Anthony Dawson) – Classic Movie Review 6146

Director Robert Day’s intriguing 1958 British horror thriller Grip of the Strangler [The Haunted Strangler] stars Boris Karloff as James Rankin, a mystery writer who investigates the case of a serial killer murderer hanged two […]

Oct, 27

The Long Dark Hall ** (1951, Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Raymond Huntley, Denis O’Dea, Anthony Bushell) – Classic Movie Review 6140

Rex Harrison stars as Arthur Groome, the unfaithful Richmond, London, husband, charged with murdering his showgirl plaything (Patricia Wayne), in directors Anthony Bushell and Reginald Beck’s ordinary, unconvincing 1951 British mystery and suspense crime thriller […]

Oct, 24

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