The $100 million pirate movie box-office flop 1995 film Cutthroat Island that sank the Carolco studio is not remotely anything like as bad as its infamy suggests. Geena Davis is extremely sprightly and appealing as […]
The Long Kiss Goodnight is a very cynical, fast-driving, exciting 1996 action thriller from director Renny Harlin, who likes to deliver sadistic moments, creating a hard edge for what is essentially a rather corny piece. […]
Michael Douglas lifts director Gary Fleder’s solid, old-style, if frankly contrived 2001 Hollywood thriller as Dr Nathan Conrad, a psychiatrist whose eight-year-old daughter Jessie (Skye McCole Bartusiak) is abducted by crazed crooks. They are desperately […]
‘There are only four questions of value in life: What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for? And what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the […]
Three acting greats — Robert De Niro, Edward Norton and Marlon Brando — are lined up for director Frank Oz’s thrilling and stylish 2001 heist film. It’s set in Montreal, where a priceless ancient sceptre is […]
Director Erle C Kenton’s 1932 horror movie is still the best film version of H G Wells’s story The Island of Dr Moreau. It was considered so horrific that it was banned by the British […]
Burt Lancaster stars in 1977 as mad scientist Dr Paul Moreau who creates human-animal hybrids in a gripping, atmospheric and lavish remake of the 1933 film The Island of Lost Souls with Charles Laughton, from the […]
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