Classic Movie Review

One of the great post atom bomb monster movies. A solid cast and hordes of giant ants make Them! (1954) a great classic sci-fi movie.

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Kung Fu and Chinese black magic as Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) helps his friends fight a 2000-year-old Chinatown demon in Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

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Better than average John Wayne fare with a great story and a lot of exciting dialogue and stunts. You will really enjoy The Sons of Katie Elder (1965).

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A funny buddy picture that never got the attention it deserves. Harrison Ford and Gene Wilder are hilarious in The Frisco Kid (1979)

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Steven Spielberg directed the most exciting archaeology and Nazi-punching movies ever. Ford is amazing as Indiana Jones, a collector of antiquities in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

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Based on W. Somerset Maugham's novel of the same name, this movie follows Larry (Bill Murray) as his searches for the meaning of life, following the WWI death of a friend, in The Razor's Edge (1984)…

This classic western shows the struggle between an old man, played by John Wayne and a younger man, played by Montogomery Clift, set during the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas in Red River (…

This movie features the great Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong, Japanese silent film actor Sessue Hayakawa, and Swedish Warner Oland as Fu Manchu. Wong is reminiscent of Norma Desmond as she wo…

This Film Noir may be the grandfather of all police procedurals. Elsa Lanchester, Ricardo Montalban, and Jan Sterling are excellent in Mystery Street (1950). Lanchester is amazing, as the investigat…

The first Sci-Fi films with a big budget, an electronic soundtrack, completely off Earth, and introducing Robby the Robot, Forbidden Planet (1956) is Leslie Nielsen's debut. With Anne Francis, Walte…

One of the ten films that paired Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet, this is a sharp mystery tale. The three strangers make a wish on a statue of a Chinese goddess and their lives are all spun in une…

Following WW1, a drunken American war hero is hired to fly a biplane for a spoiled socialite in an attempt to find her missing father. The pair, along with a mechanic take two bi-planes into Afghanis…

One of the greatest and purest Film Noirs, this movie is set on a moving train and is suspenseful and tense. Charles McGraw and Marie Windsor are antagonistically wonderful in The Narrow Margin (1952…

Based on a true story, this Film Noir, is shot in a gritty style that exposes the seedy underbelly of southern crime in The Phenix City Story (1955). You really get the feeling of southern crime.

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Michael Crichton wrote and directed this futurist tale of technology gone wild as crazed gunslinger robot Yul Brynner kills guests in Westworld (1973). Starring James Brolin and Richard Benjamin.

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Not popular when released, it has grown into a Vietnam War cult status film. Burt Lancaster is amazing as the 3 war veteran in Go Tell the Spartans (1978).

The Coyote's Tale, a noir mystery by John …

This John Milius-directed coming-of-age story is set in the world of California surfers. William Katt, Jan-Michael Vincent, and Gary Busey lead the ensemble cast through the trials leading to Big Wed…

Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre were in nine movies together. Well, I’ve seen The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), and Passage to Marseille (1944) dozens of time, so I figure I would chec…

Based on the W. Somerset Maugham novel, this film tests the story of a disenchanted World War I veteran seeking the meaning of life. The Razor’s Edge (1946) is carefully woven with a few loves storie…

Often listed as a Film Noir, The Petrified Forest (1936), is widely considered to be a precursor to Film Noir. The basic story is a lonely young waitress, a foreign drifter, and a few others are held…