Writer-director Martin Scorsese’s 1967 drama film is notable as his feature film directorial debut and Harvey Keitel’s debut as an actor. Though obviously a very tentative, early work, it gets a lot of value for its ultra low budget […]
Director Martin Scorsese’s Depression-era 1972 romantic crime thriller stars the young and lovely Barbara Hershey, who scores a success as real-life Thirties Arkansas labour organiser Bertha Thompson. Bertha takes a leaf out of Bonnie Parker’s […]
The 55-year-old Angie Dickinson returns as big bad Wilma McClatchie, a feisty armed robber dame, in co-writer/ director Jim Wynorski’s neo-noir crime action thriller Big Bad Mama II, an unexpected, belated 1987 low-budget $1.2 million […]
Director Steve Carver’s robust and rumbustious 1974 gangster thriller is a follow-up to 1970’s Roger Corman hit Bloody Mama with Shelley Winters. This time Angie Dickinson, always game for a go at anything, stars as […]
Producer-director Roger Corman’s exciting and fast-moving 1970 gangster thriller cheapie stars the redoubtable Shelley Winters, who eagerly grabs her fine acting chance and her machine gun as uber-forceful Thirties mobster Kate ‘Ma’ Barker. Ma leads […]
Co-writer/ co-producer/ scorer/ director John Carpenter’s low-budget ($60,000) 1974 feature film début is a rollicking, anarchic trip into space that merrily debunks a host of other space movies, notably 2001: A Space Odyssey, and paves […]
George Clooney stars as pressurised New York newspaper columnist Jack Taylor, who meets frenzied architectural designer Melanie Parker (Michelle Pfeiffer). But at first they are both way too busy with their jobs and looking after their […]
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