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There was bad word of mouth when that most American of actors Tom Cruise decided to play war-wounded German colonel Claus von Stauffenberg in 2008’s Valkyrie, apparently attracted to the role after seeing a picture […]
Edward G Robinson stars in Warner Bros’ 1940 biographical film A Dispatch from Reuter’s about Paul Julius Reuter, the man who built the famous Reuter’s news service. A Dispatch from Reuters is a typically robust and entertaining […]
Director Robert Altman’s brilliant, many-faceted 1975 kaleidoscopic satirical musical comedy multi-drama Nashville, centred on the town of Nashville’s fund-raising country music concert, is one of this great director’s finest films. There were five Oscar nominations […]
Producer-writer-director D W Griffith’s racist 1915 silent movie landmark tale of two families during and after the American Civil War is the American cinema’s first epic and it can still exert a strong hold on […]
Director Don Sharp’s colourful and entertaining 1966 Hammer Films studios horror movie Rasputin: The Mad Monk finds Christopher Lee going bananas as the sinister mad monk Grigori Rasputin, who uses his hypnotic powers and sexuality […]
A grim, shaven-headed Rupert Friend stars an elite assassin genetically engineered to be the perfect killing machine, with huge strength, speed, stamina and intelligence. Director Aleksander Bach‘s Hitman reboot, based on the video game series, is […]
Producer-writer-director Michael Carreras’s 1964 Hammer horror The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb is the first sequel to their 1959 film The Mummy, takes place in 1900 five years after the original, and stars Terence Morgan […]