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Back in 1968 Otto Preminger’s wild and wacky black comedy Skidoo dropped on the world like a lead balloon as a notorious bomb. But it has fervent admirers and it is certainly worth trying for […]
Writer-director Guy Ritchie’s nasty, bad karma action crime thriller The Gentlemen (2020) is extremely slick and thoroughly entertaining, though it is a highly disreputable piece of work. It’s one of those movies where you are […]
Outstanding performances from Timothy Hutton as aloof young CIA man Christopher Boyce and Sean Penn as his amoral, drug-pusher buddy Daulton Lee light up director John Schlesinger’s taut, intelligent 1985 US thriller The Falcon and […]
Conrad Khan gives a startling, uber-confident turn as troubled 14-year-old London schoolboy Tyler, who becomes a drug courier for creepy older criminal Simon (Harris Dickinson), in writer-director Henry Blake’s equally confident and powerful feature debut […]
Director André de Toth’s 1957 Monkey on My Back is a downbeat but compelling biopic about the rise and fall of champion boxer, World War Two war hero and morphine addict Barney Ross. It is […]
Och aye, Samuel L McJackson is a sight for sore eyes with golf clubs and a kilt as Elmo McElroy, a crooked master chemist who heads to the UKto launch a new designer drug in […]
Director Michael Oblowitz’s 2003 revenge, payback action crime adventure Out for a Kill stars ageing action-man Steven Seagal in what seems like an unusual role for him as a college archaeology professor called Robert Burns, […]