Director J Lee Thompson’s 1986 film Murphy’s Law is a routine and violent neo noir cop thriller, with a hand-me-down plot from 48 hrs and The Gauntlet, which has the stoney-faced Charles Bronson, aged 65, […]
John Updike’s tremendous 1960 novel translates poorly to the screen in Jack Smight’s often intriguing, but ultimately unexciting 1970 movie Rabbit, Run. James Caan stars as ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom. American author John Updike’s tremendous 1960 novel […]
Director Frank Perry’s 1970 Diary of a Mad Housewife stars Richard Benjamin as the greedy, egotistical, abusive lawyer Jonathan Balser, who repels his put-upon housewife Tina (Carrie Snodgress), who has a fling with big-headed writer […]
Director Frank Perry’s and writer Eleanor Perry’s 1962 David and Lisa is a significant film and also important culturally as an American independent production that gained Oscar nominations for the husband and wife director-writer team, […]
Director Frank Perry turns his hand to the useful 1971 spaghetti Western ‘Doc’, about sharp-shooting poker gambler Doc Holliday (Stacy Keach), his friend Marshal Wyatt Earp (Harris Yulin), and Kate Elder (Faye Dunaway). The late, […]
Patrice Leconte’s dazzlingly stylish French crime thriller film 1989 Monsieur Hire stars Michel Blanc as the lonely bachelor who falls for disrobed object of desire Alice (Sandrine Bonnaire), a young woman he has been peeping […]
Star Paul Newman and director John Huston are in easy-going mood in the likeable 1972 movie The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, an amusing if unfocused Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid-type Western […]
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