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For some reason sporting a weird prosthetic nose, Guy Pearce leads this in-your-face but jovial, old-style caper thriller about three crook brothers, Dale, Shane and Mal Twentyman (Pearce, Joel Edgerton, Damien Richardson). The three fraternal […]
Bernard Hill (aged 71) and Virginia McKenna (85) do well as old married couple Arthur and Martha Goode, who take to robbing banks as a way out of the financial problems of old age. My […]
Director Walter Hill’s thrilling 1980 film version of the well-known, much told story of the Jesse James outlaw gang of bank robbers starts with the useful gimmick of four sets of actual brothers in the star parts […]
Young writer-director Michael Cimino’s exciting 1974 thriller finds Clint Eastwood on his best form as Thunderbolt, a hardened artilleryman bank robber who flees from jail, chums up with Lightfoot, an aimless, flippant, irresponsible, irreverent young punk (Jeff […]
Nicholas Ray’s 1948 film noir They Live by Night stars Farley Granger as a young fugitive who falls in love with a woman (Cathy O’Donnell) but they become a couple on the run. This beautiful, supremely sensitive, highly […]
The stupendous 1969 comedy Western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with Paul Newman and Robert Redford won four Oscars. Director George Roy Hill’s 1969’s gem is a stupendous comedy Western that put him together […]
Al Pacino’s LA cop Lieutenant Vincent Hanna and Robert De Niro’s master thief Neil McCauley battle it out in Michael Mann’s brilliant cat-and-mouse epic gangster thriller film Heat. Val Kilmer plays crew member Chris Shiherlis. […]