Director Jim Sheridan’s 2002 Irish movie about of his early struggles in America is sometimes strained but most often a real, enchanting heart-warmer. There’s quirky charm aplenty in this tale of an Irish actor Johnny (Paddy Considine) […]
Toni Servillo stars as journalist Jep Gambardella, who after his 65th birthday looks back over enjoying the years of nightclubs and parties nightlife of Rome and discovers a timeless landscape of perennial great beauty. Now that’s a plot […]
Britain’s Ralph Fiennes is oddly cast as American ex-cop turned cynical cyberpunk Lenny Nero in a sea of troubles in director Kathryn Bigelow’s nastily violent ‘apocalypse soon’ sci-fi thriller, made in 1995 but set cannily […]
This thoroughly enjoyable film noir thriller was made in 1944 by the great Viennese director Fritz Lang, who probably knew as little about its source author as about England. But he did knew a lot […]
Director Nicholas Ray’s classic 1950 film noir thriller is still essential viewing, with a scalding performance by Humphrey Bogart that’s a highlight of his illustrious career. Bogart relishes one of his most complex, intricate and […]
Rita Hayworth stars in her best and most famous role as the silky, sensuous and sultry adventuress Gilda in director Charles Vidor’s 1946 archetypal film noir classic. This cleverly plotted, morally ambiguous mystery thriller, involving escapism, suspense, intrigue, glamour […]
Director Tony Scott’s shocking and exhilarating 1993 crime thriller turns Quentin Tarantino’s pre-Reservoir Dogs screenplay into an astounding designer-violence style object. It is a heady, giddying odyssey into the dark side. Christian Slater stars as […]
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