Director Michael Caton-Jones’s capable, quite exciting 1997 action thriller is a more than satisfactory remake of The Day of the Jackal (1973), an admittedly much better film that didn’t need a remake. Richard Gere and Bruce […]
Director Jim Clark’s mostly wild and witless, wide-of-the-mark 1972 British crime comedy Rentadick stars an amiable group of experienced farce players and has much broad fun with British national stereotypes. It is certainly to be […]
Director Ida Lupino’s intriguing and involving but hesitant 1951 drama is written by Martha Wilkerson. The movie, unusually for this time one with women as both the writer and director, as well as two female stars, is […]
Director Brian Robbins’s decent 2004 youth drama cannot earn a perfect score, but it does win marks for trying. The screenplay by Marc Hyman, Jon Zack and Mark Schwahn tells a familiar yet friendly yarn, […]
In this pleasant, good-hearted 2001 sports drama film, Keanu Reeves scores a home run as Conor O’Neill, who gets into a mess scalping tickets, gambling and drinking. He so is desperate for a loan from […]
For some reason sporting a weird prosthetic nose, Guy Pearce leads this in-your-face but jovial, old-style caper thriller about three crook brothers, Dale, Shane and Mal Twentyman (Pearce, Joel Edgerton, Damien Richardson). The three fraternal […]
Director Howard Deutch’s genial, enjoyable and well-acted 2000 sports comedy The Replacements stars Keanu Reeves as Shane Falco, the scab strike-breaking American pro-football player, who replaces the All-Pro star quarterback Eddie Martel (Brett Cullen) when […]
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