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The Verdict (1982)

It seems that these days there aren’t as many new courtroom dramas anymore as there used to be in the nineties and before. The last one I can remember is The Lincoln Lawyer, but can’t name any other movie before that. They can be really exciting to watch as they really are verbal battlefields, with the lawyers being the gladiators that fight each other with words and evidence. I loved movies like A Few Good Man, Judgement At Nuremberg or 12 Angry Men so was also looking forward to Sidney Lumet’s The Verdict, starring Paul Newman. Continue reading →

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The Hustler (1961)

The next movie out of the IMDB top 250 that i saw for the first time.
Fast Eddie (terrifically played by Paul Newman) is a pool player who together with his manager travels through the country to earn money hustling by placing bets on his pool games.

When he has to play one of the best players in the country, a fat man named Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason), he has to face his own issues. Continue reading →

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The Sting (1973)

Robert Redford, Paul Newman (who already worked together in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)) and Robert Shaw star in this (IMDB top 250) movie about a couple of conmen who want to do a very big con. It’s a great heist movie which reminded me of the exact opposite of Ocean’s Eleven, as in this case the money will come to them. Continue reading →