Sacha Baron Cohen puts the grim in Grimsby as his latest creation, the football obsessed, kebab-munching Nobby. Cohen and Mark Strong form a highly skilled comedy double act but the jokes are mean and offensive – and isn’t […]
Producer-director Robert Aldrich gets his big knife out to stab Tinseltown in the back. He fancies – and really relishes – the idea of biting the hand that feeds him in this sly and superlative […]
‘Thank goodness, we can all relax, Susan Hayward’s won the Oscar she has been chasing for 20 years.’ Susan Hayward’s Best Actress Oscar-winning portrayal of Barbara Graham, a card-sharp, thief and prostitute who was sentenced […]
Robert Mitchum stars as old-hand rodeo rider Jeff McCloud in director Nicholas Ray’s flavoursome, rather special, character- and atmosphere-driven 1952 Western drama. It is one of Ray’s lesser-known but best movies. Mitchum, Arthur Kennedy, Arthur […]
The 1956 war drama film Between Heaven and Hell stars Robert Wagner as spoiled Southern gentleman Sam Francis Gifford, who is called up in the US Army in World War Two. Director Richard Fleischer’s realistic […]
Director André de Toth’s upper middle-of-the-range 1955 Western provides a good star role for Kirk Douglas, who plays The Indian Fighter conducting the wagon train across hostile Sioux land when he gets involved with a […]
This familiar-feeling big top melodrama, with its old tale of circus family conflicts, is a sneaky reworking of themes from the big-city drama House of Strangers (1949) and the Western Broken Lance (1954) without actually […]
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