Japanese writer-director Takeshi Kitano returns to form in his compassionate 1996 boxing tale about two troublesome teenage drifters, boxer Shinji (Masanobu Andô) and Yakuza gangster Masaru (Ken Kaneko), who take up boxing when their intimidation tactics […]
After the bright young Kids Return (1996), Japanese writer-director-star Takeshi Kitano (Beat Takeshi) turns in a world-weary old man’s movie in this meditation on lives at the end of their tether. For Hana-Bi, Takeshi Kitano was […]
Wim Wenders’s eye-catching and very worthy 1982 neo noir film homage to the crime thriller and its great writer Dashiell Hammett has the tasteful stamp of its producer Francis Ford Coppola all over it. Coppola […]
John Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer) has All the Money in the World but won’t cough up the $17 million ransom his daughter-in-law Gail (Michelle Williams) needs for the ransom to spring his 16-year-old grandson Jean Paul Getty III […]
Producer-director John Sturges’s good-looking, robust 1965 Western stars Burt Lancaster as Colonel Thaddeus Gearhart, who is assigned to protect a valuable shipment of whisky en route to the thirsty miners in Denver. Native Americans, the US […]
Producer-director Roberto Rossellini’s beautiful, brooding and delicately done 1949 Italian neo-realist film tells his story about an attractive Lithuanian refugee called Karen (Ingrid Bergman) who marries a young Italian fisherman named Antonio (Mario Vitale) to escape […]
Pitch Perfect 3 is bright enough for the first hour, with enough warmth and good humour and some enjoyable numbers, but it fizzles out and then just fades away, leaving no good taste or lasting […]
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