Director Neil Marshall’s 2019 Hellboy is trashy but lusty, with plenty of guts and gore. Caught between supernatural and human worlds, the part-demon Hellboy re-connects with his human dad Professor Broom (and Ian McShane) and […]
Sometimes, very rarely, Clint Eastwood surprises audiences by showing that he can be in a romantic, much softer mood, as with The Bridges of Madison County. Here, back in 1973 the Eastwood-directed romance Breezy, with […]
With Sam Peckinpah’s 1977 Cross of Iron judged a success, a sequel called Sergeant Steiner [aka Steiner – Das Eiserne Kreuz, 2. Teil, aka Breakthrough] was ordered in 1979, directed by Andrew V McLaglen. James […]
Director Sam Peckinpah’s distinguished 1977 war film Cross of Iron is a tough and compelling dissection of the German military mind, seen through the eyes of four men in bloody battle against Russia in 1943. […]
Director Kon Ichikawa’s 1963 Japanese Eastmancolor classic An Actor’s Revenge [Yukinojô Henge] is a cleverly intricate and rivetingly compelling drama about Yukinojo, a touring Kabuki actor who sets out to avenge himself on the three […]
‘Thick as thieves. Only thicker.’ Unfortunately, this little known Michael Caine film deserves to be little known, though it has its modest charms and is not a total bust. Michael Caine and Dylan Moran star […]
Director Ridley Scott’s celebratory 1992 historical adventure film biopic 1492: Conquest of Paradise is a stodgily told account of Christopher Columbus’s voyages to America, with a dull central performance by a miscast Gérard Depardieu, struggling […]
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