Director William Friedkin’s often exciting 1978 true crime heist movie The Brink’s Job is based on the real-life American ‘crime of the century’ in 1950 when nearly $3 million was snatched by amateurs in an […]
John Huston’s 1970 Cold War spy thriller film The Kremlin Letter is an endearing farrago of a film from a legendary top-quality film-maker who should have been able to sort this mess out. Co-writer/ co-producer/ […]
The 1985 film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is the lavish third part of director George Miller’s trilogy. in which Mel Gibson’s Max leads a revolt by children against villainous Aunty Entity (Tina Turner). The 1985 […]
The bigger budget and the growing confidence and skill of star Mel Gibson and director George Miller are much in evidence in the thrilling 1981 second helping of more of the Max factor. Gibson walks […]
Peter Yates’s 1983 state-of-the-art sword and sorcery saga Krull stars Ken Marshall as athletic young Prince Colwyn setting off to rescue Princess Lyssa (Lysette Anthony) from an evil beast on the planet Krull. Director Peter […]
Richard Widmark stars as Frank Patch, an old-fashioned marshal who sticks to his guns and will not resign when he has cleaned up a Texas town and his enemies want him out. But then outlaws turn […]
Director Peter Yates’s third collaboration with screen-writer Steve Tesich is an awfully limp 1985 true-life drama film about New York journalist Nick (John Malkovich)’s trip back to Greece to investigate the death of his mother […]
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