Adam Sandler plays 32-year-old slacker-genius Sonny Koufax, in Columbia Tri-Star’s hugely popular 1999 comedy, directed by Dennis Dugan, with a story and screenplay by Steve Franks. Sonny is a do-nothing law school graduate with an investment […]
A moderately amusing idea about a police commissioner lowering his standards to take in a bunch of misfit recruits turned into a comedy sensation that has surprisingly run and run (to Police Academy 7 so […]
Writer-director Irwin Winkler’s 1991 drama is an interesting and sincere but mild drama of the Hollywood blacklist intrigues. It is an intelligently written reminder of some uncomfortable facts of Hollywood’s – and America’s – past, […]
Robert De Niro plays Harry Fabian, a cheating, fast-talking New York lawyer embroiled in shady boxing promotions, in Irwin Winkler’s classy 1992 updated remake of Jules Dassin’s 1950 film noir Night and the City. Robert […]
Director David Hugh Jones’s emotionally intense 1989 movie version of a modest three-hander play is lifted high by a trio of brilliant first-class performances, showing how the quality of the acting can totally transform and […]
Director Michael Curtiz’s 1937 movie is a top-of-the-class entry in Warner Bros’ Thirties boxing-movie cycle. Edward G Robinson gives a knockout turn as fight promoter Nick Donati, who turns a bellhop called Ward Guisenberry (Wayne […]
Director Phil Karlson’s 1962 movie Kid Galahad is the Elvis Presley musical remake of director Michael Curtiz’s famous 1937 prize-fighter movie Kid Galahad, in which Edward G Robinson gives a knockout turn as the promoter […]
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