‘We can’t clean up the world with dirty hands.’ Denzel Washington and Liev Schreiber are superlative as soldiers brainwashed in the 1991 Gulf War in director Jonathan Demme’s heart-poundingly urgent 2004 update of the dazzling […]
This dazzling, brilliant Sixties conspiracy political thriller from 1962 is cleverly adapted by George Axelrod from Richard Condon’s famous novel. The Manchurian Candidate won no Oscars but it’s now legendary, thanks to its ingenious plot […]
‘The Master is coming.’ – Renfield. ‘Cruel is when you can’t die even if you want to.’ – Dracula. Director Werner Herzog triumphantly remakes the famous 1921 horror silent with all due respect to the […]
F W Murnau’s classic vampire film Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horrors is an unlicensed adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. The great grand-daddy of all horror movies, it is silent movie gothic horror at […]
Writer-director Brian Helgeland’s old-fashioned biopic of Jackie Robinson, who made history as the first black man in the US baseball Major League, is incredibly well meaning and good hearted. Stirring and inspiring, it raises the […]
Lino Ventura is perfect as a doomed anti-hero in Claude Sautet’s bleak, tough 1960 French film noir-style gangster film Classe Tous Risques [The Big Risk]. Sandra Milo plays a young actress befriended by a young […]
I really got a rush out of Rush. It’s really fast and furious, precision handled and a quirky labour of love. Chris Hemsworth is excellent as 70s British racing driver James Hunt, a charismatic playboy, and […]
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