Ealing Studios’ engrossing 1956 British crime thriller film The Long Arm stars Jack Hawkins in one of his quintessential roles as a Scotland Yard detective investigating a series of safe-breaking jobs. Director Charles Frend’s 1956 […]
Director Jack Clayton’s 1987 best of British drama provides lovely showcase for impeccable, tour-de-force acting from Maggie Smith as Judith Hearne. Smith won the 1989 BAFTA Film Award for Best Actress. Judith Hearne is the lonely, penniless […]
Steve Martin stars as struggling New York greetings card writer Larry Hubbard who is forced to follow the lifestyle of a single Lonely Guy when his girlfriend Danielle (Robyn Douglass) throws him out. He is […]
Kirk Douglas triumphs in some of his best acting in director David Miller’s intense and brooding 1962 pursuit Western Lonely Are the Brave. Douglas gives a stalwart, practised and ultra-confident performance as Jack Burns, a […]
Joshua Jackson stars in director David Semel’s 2002 movie as a young Texas small-town mechanic, who lands in trouble when he has to bail out his fiancée Baby (Jamie King)’s dim cousin Junior (D J […]
Writer-director John Sayles’s beautifully written 1996 murder-mystery neo Western thriller is long, complex and satisfying, and is one of the cult film-maker’s best movies. Sayles’s screenplay tackles the tensions in a Texas border small town. Success is spearheaded by Chris Cooper’s […]
The 1952 large-scale Western film Lone Star stars Clark Gable and Ava Gardner, and is set against Texas’s battle to be independent. Ava said: ‘Clark, you do realise that this dog of a movie we […]
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