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Take your places, please, for this delicious, subtle banquet of a meal. The posh venue is Italian restaurant proprietor and bookmaker Louis Cropa (Danny Aiello)’s New York Italian diner. It’s a big night and the food is […]
‘Temptation and terror… in a savage land of wild desire!’ Director Roger Corman’s 1957 Sunset Productions/ American International Pictures thriller stars Richard Denning and Beverly Garland as Duke Bradley and Max MacKenzie, with Lisa Montell as Lanai. It co-stars Leslie Bradley as gangster Zach […]
Packed with great, salty dialogue, director Ken Loach’s 2009 movie tells an enjoyable tall tale of two Erics – one of them the ex-soccer genius Eric Cantona, the other a sad old British postman (Steve […]
Writer-director Jean-Pierre Melville’s shadowy, twisting and disturbing 1962 French neo noir gangster thriller Le Doulos is adapted from the novel by Pierre Lesou. It takes its power and modernity from being a profoundly cynical and […]
Jean-Pierre Melville’s exhilarating 1966 heist gangster thriller Le Deuxième Souffle [Second Breath] is another of his hugely impressive films about the treacherous camaraderie of the criminal underworld. French director Jean-Pierre Melville’s exhilarating 1966 heist gangster thriller Le […]
James Cagney stars in director William Keighley’s 1935 crime thriller as ‘Brick’ Davis, a thrusting lawyer, befriended and educated by big-time racketeer ‘Mac’ McKay (William Harrigan). Brick joins the side of justice as an FBI government […]
Richard Denning stars as police doctor Chet Walker, who uncovers atomic-powered zombies, in the jaw-droppingly bizarre 1955 crime, sci-fi horror film Creature with the Atom Brain. Richard Denning stars as police doctor Dr Chet Walker, […]