Writer-director Sergio Leone’s splendidly and impressively over-the-top 1972 modern Western is set in Mexico in 1913 at the time of the Mexican Revolution. Succeeding by excess, this nevertheless thoughtful and intelligent action spectacular turned out to be […]
A Fistful of Dollars (1964) – Per un pugno di dollari in Italian – is the first of writer-director Sergio Leone’s much admired, incredibly popular, now cult classic series of spaghetti Westerns. It was eventually a huge […]
Director Ridley Scott’s 1997 movie stars Demi Moore in one of her key roles. Moore shaves her head and pumps up the muscles for her showy performance as a US intelligence officer, Lieutenant Jordan O’Neil. […]
Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald are perfectly matched in the rousing 1932 pre-Code vintage Hollywood musical comedy film Love Me Tonight, one of the genre’s highspots. Producer-director Rouben Mamoulian’s rousing 1932 pre-Code vintage Hollywood musical […]
Director John Huston’s and playwright/screenwriter Arthur Miller’s 1961 modern-day Western is brilliantly strange and striking. It focuses on the lives of a quartet of loveable losers (‘the misfits’), who embark on a chase for symbolic horses against […]
For the Beatles’ first and best full-length movie A Hard Day’s Night (1964), Richard Lester directs a cunning, cheerfully anarchic black-and-white documentary-style musical fantasy spun around a supposedly typical day and a night in the […]
Colin Firth stars as Wallace Avery, an American man with a job he hates and an ex-wife (Anne Heche) and son who hate him. The solution? He fakes his own death in the sea and assumes a new […]
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