The dark and gritty 1996 medical thriller film Extreme Measures stars Hugh Grant as an English doctor in peril after he uncovers a sinister conspiracy in a New York hospital and the ever-reliable Gene Hackman […]
Director Walter Hill’s disappointing 1987 movie kind of works as a basic action thriller but tells an extremely scrappy, violent and confused story. It reunites Hill with Powers Boothe after Southern Comfort (1981). Nick Nolte stars […]
Bruce Lee’s son Brandon Lee shows considerable charisma and acting talent in director Dwight H Little’s fair 1992 martial arts action thriller that turned him into a star just before his death on the set […]
Director Walter Hill’s 1981 man’s man action thriller with Vietnam on its mind is one of this great director’s finest movies. In the screenplay by Hill, producer David Giler and Michael Kane, trigger-happy National Guardsmen […]
John Milius’s 1984 American right-wing propaganda action thriller film Red Dawn is disreputable but sneakily enjoyable. Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen and C Thomas Howell star. Co-writer/ director John Milius’s 1984 American Eighties right-wing propaganda action […]
Director John Boorman’s 1985 jungle adventure The Emerald Forest is both thrilling and uplifting, with director Boorman’s own son Charley Boorman starring as Tommy, a boy kidnapped at seven and brought up by an Amazon […]
Director Ken Russell’s safe and successful 1969 transition to the movies of D H Lawrence’s great novel Women in Love stars Glenda Jackson, who won her first Oscar for her part as Gudrun Brangwen. The […]
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