Director William A Wellman’s 1953 aviation adventure Island in the Sky is a wordy and predictable, but still sturdy air rescue drama about Captain Dooley (John Wayne)’s World War Two wartime crew who have to […]
After four bit parts in films, James Dean has a fifth and final unbilled role as a Football Spectator in Michael Curtiz’s sentimental 1953 tear-jerking family drama film Trouble Along the Way. Director Michael Curtiz’s […]
Director Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit (2019) is a bold but awkward, uneasy World War Two Germany surreal satirical comedy, with its major plus points in the performances of Roman Griffin Davis as troubled, lonely 10-year-old […]
Writer-director Guy Ritchie’s nasty, bad karma action crime thriller The Gentlemen (2020) is extremely slick and thoroughly entertaining, though it is a highly disreputable piece of work. It’s one of those movies where you are […]
Producer-director King Vidor’s 1936 Western film The Texas Rangers is a spruce outing for the familiar old yarn about the two former outlaw cowpoke buddies (Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie) who sign up to take to […]
Director Leslie Fenton’s 1949 Western film Streets of Laredo is a routine but sturdy remake of The Texas Rangers (1936), this time starring William Holden and Macdonald Carey as old outlaw buddies Jim Dawkins (Holden) […]
Only Klaus Maria Brandauer raises a real spark of interest in director Joe Roth’s superficial 1986 Rocky clone, Streets of Gold, based on a story by Dezso Magyar. He plays Alek Neuman, a Russian Jewish […]
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