In the year after From Russia with Love, The Rank Organisation studios thought it was time to send up secret agents, so they got Dirk Bogarde to play Nicholas Whistler, a bumbling British Czech-fluent writer […]
Who’d have thought Olympus Has Fallen (2013) would turn into a trilogy? The third ‘… Has Fallen’ action thriller movie, Angel Has Fallen (2019), is surprisingly good, much better than expected, mixing well-staged violent action […]
Director Peter Yates’s thoroughly enjoyable and entirely amusing 1972 comedy thriller heist caper yarn The Hot Rock [How to Steal a Diamond in Four Uneasy Lessons] stars Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, Paul Sand, […]
Director Gower Champion’s 1974 comedy crime thriller Bank Shot stars George C Scott as Walter Ballantine, who leads a gang with a novel idea in bank heists – actually uprooting and driving away an entire […]
Tess in 1979 was the final film directed by Roman Polanski for seven years until his 1986 swashbuckler pirate movie Pirates. Roman Polanski’s rollicking 1986 pirate romp Pirates boasts a jolly performance by Walter Matthau […]
Ernst Lubitsch remakes his 1925 silent movie Kiss Me Again as the 1941 film That Uncertain Feeling, a daft but witty comedy about an insomniac wife (Merle Oberon), who gets psychosomatic hiccups and consults a […]
Director Gurinder Chadha’s Blinded by the Light is a good-natured, often amusing and affecting musical comedy drama, inspired by the words and music of Bruce Springsteen, and set in the dark days of Margaret Thatcher’s […]
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