Writer-director John Hughes’s classy 1987 holiday road movie comedy memorably pairs Steve Martin with John Candy. Martin stars as straightlaced advertising marketing executive Neal Page, struggling to speed home for Thanksgiving, who finds he cannot […]
Ealing Studios’ 1949 British portmanteau film flashes back to reveal four of the passengers’ stories as a London to Liverpool-bound train heads for a crash into a stalled petrol tanker at a level crossing. Ealing […]
Burt Kennedy, the script-writer of Budd Boetticher’s classic Fifties Westerns, wrote and directed this 1973 Western for a rather plump and elderly-looking John Wayne, who, as gunhand Lane, leads a gang taken on by worthy […]
Director Gavin O’Connor’s 2016 crime action drama is distinctly odd and a bit patchy, but it is definitely intriguing, interesting and entertaining overall. Ben Affleck stars in a grim, literally monotonous performance as The Accountant – […]
Co-writer/ director Steven Shainberg’s 2016 movie is really good stuff, engrossing and original, pitched successfully somewhere between a thriller, sci-fi and a horror movie. So it is satisfyingly different from your average chiller movie. Noomi Rapace […]
Ken Stott stars with Nick Moran, Dominic Monaghan and Kate Ashfield in co-writer/ director Colin Teague’s heated-to-boiling-point 2004 Brit crime thriller as con artists making small-time stings. But Stott’s partners get too greedy and he […]
Director Bradford May’s 1994 Grand Guignol horror comic sequel to Darkman (1990) is entertaining enough, with Arnold Vosloo an adequate replacement for Liam Neeson as the scientist-shadowy avenger Darkman, who was all but killed when beaten […]
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