Recalling the young Al Pacino, no less, Oscar Isaac gives an electrifying performance as Abel Morales, an ambitious American immigrant who fights to protect his increasingly iffy business and his family during 1981, apparently the most […]
Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson adapts Thomas Pynchon’s novel with due conviction and gusto, turning it into a bizarre ‘groovy’ kidnapping romp peopled by unfathomably oddball characters. Oh well, it’s LA in the 70s, no need to fathom […]
Director Clint Eastwood’s devastating anti-war movie is one of his best films, with several scalding, edge-of-seat, life-or-death sequences that will always haunt the mind. Bradley Cooper is great as real-life US Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, whose accuracy […]
Liam Neeson returns for a third and final time as ex-government operative Bryan Mills, who is framed for murder and must track down the real killers, in the 2014 French action thriller Taken 3. Liam […]
Jane Fonda and Jon Voight won Oscars for Best Actress and Best Actor for the high-impact 1978 American romantic war drama film Coming Home. A third Oscar went to Best Original Screenplay. Bruce Dern and Penelope Milford were nominated […]
Based on Horace McCoy’s 1935 novel, director Sydney Pollack’s 1969 study of disparate group of characters desperate to win a gruelling 1932 Depression-era dance marathon is both incredibly atmospheric and evocative as well as thoughtful […]
Anthony Mann’s tense and taut 1957 Western stars Henry Fonda as cynical ex-sheriff turned bounty hunter ‘Morg’ Hickman and Anthony Perkins as the young sheriff. Director Anthony Mann’s tense and taut 1957 Western film The […]
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