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The brilliant, controversial 1972 American action crime thriller film Prime Cut stars Lee Marvin as a Chicago mob enforcer sent to Kansas to collect a debt from a meatpacker boss (Gene Hackman) who grinds his enemies […]
Director Chris Bouchard’s typical Guy Ritchie-style London lowlife thriller stars Nathanael Wiseman as small-time drug-dealer Sirus. He lands himself in big trouble when he gets caught up in the plan of bent East London cop Priestly (Arin […]
The tough and gritty 1951 film noir crime thriller The Racket boasts a great cast headed by stars Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott and Robert Ryan. Director John Cromwell’s tough and gritty 1951 gangster thriller The […]
Recalling the young Al Pacino, no less, Oscar Isaac gives an electrifying performance as Abel Morales, an ambitious American immigrant who fights to protect his increasingly iffy business and his family during 1981, apparently the most […]
Director Jim McBride’s hot and fresh 1986 erotic crime thriller stars Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin in their prime and on their peak form. They show they have the sexual chemistry to make screenwriter Daniel […]
Mark Wahlberg stars as ex-con Leo Handler who is freed from jail and finds himself drawn into the business of renovating New York’s subway cars by his aunt Kitty Olchin (Faye Dunaway)’s new husband, Frank […]
Legendary director Frank Capra’s perfectly honed, much-loved 1939 classic Mr Smith Goes to Washington is a politically-minded comedy drama follow-up to his triumphant 1936 Gary Cooper movie Mr Deeds Goes to Town. Mr Smith centres […]