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Director Roland Joffé’s 1984 British anti-war film about the friendship of American New York Times journalist Sydney Schanberg (Sam Waterston) and his local journalist guide Dith Pran (Haing S Ngor) is both angry and intelligent. […]
Director Peter Yates’s third collaboration with screen-writer Steve Tesich is an awfully limp 1985 true-life drama film about New York journalist Nick (John Malkovich)’s trip back to Greece to investigate the death of his mother […]
Audie Murphy stars as one of the Old West’s legendary outlaws – Jesse James – in director Ray Enright’s robust and welcome 1950 American Civil War-set Western. The screenplay by Robert L Richards finds Jesse […]
Director Budd Boetticher’s 1959 classic cult Western stars Randolph Scott as Union officer Captain John Hayes, who is ordered to become the boss of the Overland Stage Line, and has to see a cargo of […]
Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Eva Marie Saint star in MGM’s extravagant 1957 American epic historical romantic Western war film Raintree County, based on Ross Lockridge Jr’s 1948 novel. A typecast Elizabeth Taylor settles in comfortably to a tailor-made role […]
Director Sofia Coppola says she is adapting the original novel but that still means she remakes Don Siegel’s 1971 The Beguiled, thus inviting comparisons with the Clint Eastwood classic. This is a strange and unwise […]
It’s the last day of high school, and Charlie Day stars as an easy-going, good-natured school teacher who, to save his own job, gets another (angry and erratic) teacher (Ice Cube) fired after he chops […]