Writer-director Samuel Fuller’s brutal 1953 hard-boiled Cold War spy film noir thriller is a little masterpiece of its kind, one of the cult film-maker’s great noir classics. Richard Widmark stars at his arrogant, menacing snarling […]
Co-writer/director Oliver Stone’s 1987 financial drama summons up the get-rich-quick 80s era better than most other movies and added a couple of indelible phrases into the language: ‘greed is good’ and ‘lunch is for wimps’. Though the […]
David Caruso stars as ex-con Jimmy Kilmartin who battles Nicolas Cage’s psychotic mobster Little Junior Brown in a basic, nastily violent crime thriller flick that’s no more than a cheesy B-movie. It’s flashy and atmospheric, but […]
The poster may feature Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy and Coleen Gray, but director Henry Hathaway’s tough and gritty vintage 1947 thriller Kiss of Death provides a brilliant showcase for the 33-year-old Richard Widmark, who was […]
Robert Benton won Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director for the 1979 American legal drama film Kramer vs Kramer, starring Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep and Justin Henry. Writer-director Robert Benton hones this four-hankie, five-Oscar-winning tearjerker tale of a tug-of-love between workaholic advertising executive Ted […]
Director Barry Levinson’s four Oscar-winning 1988 drama is a triumph, winning some of the most important of the 1989 Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. It also won the […]
Director Oliver Stone’s double Oscar-winning 1989 anti-war movie provides Tom Cruise with indisputably one of his best-ever roles as all-American boy Ron Kovic who was paralysed in the Vietnam War and returns to America to find […]
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