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The Secret of Blood Island ** (1965, Jack Hedley, Barbara Shelley, Patrick Wymark, Charles Tingwell, Bill Owen, Lee Montague) – Classic Movie Review 8713

Director Quentin Lawrence’s 1964 The Secret of Blood Island is a Hammer Films World War Two adventure movie that follows British secret agent Elaine (Barbara Shelley) on a mission to a concentration camp in enemy-occupied […]

Jul, 15

Revolt of the Mercenaries [La rivolta dei mercenari] ** (1961, Virginia Mayo, Conrado San Martín, Susana Canales) – Classic Movie Review 7937

Director Piero Costa’s 1964 Revolt of the Mercenaries [La Rivolta dei Mercenari] is a lurid and lusty if somewhat mediocre Italian swashbuckler, set during the Renaissance in Friuli, Venezia, in an Italy that was then […]

Dec, 23

Young Törless [Der Junge Törless] **** (1966, Mathieu Carrière, Marian Seidowsky, Bernd Tischer, Barbara Steele) – Classic Movie Review 7497

Writer-director Volker Schlöndorff’s powerful and relevant 1966 Young Törless [Der Junge Törless] is notable as this important German film-maker’s first feature. It is his forceful, assured, well-acted version of the classic Robert Musil parable novel […]

Aug, 25

The Evil That Men Do * (1984, Charles Bronson, Theresa Saldana, Joseph Maher, José Ferrer, René Enriquez, John Glover, Raymond St Jacques) – Classic Movie Review 6781

Director J Lee Thompson’s competent but disreputable 1984 vengeance/ executioner action thriller stars weary old Charles Bronson, who is still doing his vigilante violence at the age of 62, this time as Holland, a retired hit […]

Mar, 09

Star Wars: The Last Jedi ** (2017, Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Carrie Fisher, Domhnall Gleeson, Laura Dern, Kelly Marie Tran) – Movie Review

Writer-director Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi is nominated for four Oscars and has earned a fortune ($1,311,425,821 by 28 January 2018) but it is a letdown and certainly comes complete with a full cargo […]

Feb, 18

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

The Lords of Discipline ***½ (1983, David Keith, Robert Prosky, G D Spradlin, Michael Biehn) – Classic Movie Review 5400

British director Franc Roddam confidently tackles this 1983 American military school drama with a tough surface and a powerful theme: a condemnation of false manly values and of racism at the heart of America’s institutions. […]

May, 06

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