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The Killing ***** (1956, Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C Flippen, Marie Windsor, Ted de Corsia, Elisha Cook Jr, Timothy Carey) – Classic Movie Review 359

Stanley Kubrick’s exhilarating youthful 1956 masterpiece – his third feature made when he was 28 – is a taut, fast-paced, atmospheric B-movie noir thriller. It gets top mileage from its carefully delineated characters of hoods […]

Nov, 03

Full Metal Jacket ***** (1987, Matthew Modine, R Lee Ermey, Vincent D’Onofrio) – Classic Movie Review 324

‘I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be “Sir”. Do you […]

Oct, 26

Eyes Wide Shut **** (1999, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack) – Classic Movie Review 269

It’s 1999, and, when the screen’s then most famous married couple, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, teams up with one of the great film directors – Stanley Kubrick – you expect sparks to fly or […]

Oct, 05

Artificial Intelligence: AI ***** (2001, Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law) – Classic Movie Review 232

The Sixth Sense’s Haley Joel Osment (then 13) proves what a little superstar he is as a robot boy who just longs to be human in Steven Spielberg’s dazzling sci-fi film, made in 2001. In […]

Sep, 08

Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ***** (1964, Peter Sellers, George C Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull, Slim Pickens) – Classic Movie Review 209

Based on Peter George’s serious thriller novel Red Alert, Stanley Kubrick’s chillingly hilarious 1964 satire from the terrifying Sixties Cold War era seems as brilliant and relevant as ever. A doomsday black comedy about the […]

Sep, 01

2001: A Space Odyssey ***** (1968, Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester) – Classic Movie Review 195

‘Do you read me, HAL?’ ‘Affirmative, Dave, I read you.’ Stanley Kubrick’s monumental 1968 sci-fi epic is a gloriously hypnotic, spectacular and ultra-imaginative masterpiece of cinema. It’s a work of genius and a movie milestone. […]

Aug, 27

A Clockwork Orange ***** (1971, Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates) – Classic Movie Review 130

‘Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?’ Based on Anthony Burgess’s 1962 modern classic novel, now a provocative school study text as a set book, […]

Aug, 06

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