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Mark Wahlberg is excellent in a serious role as English lit professor and compulsive high-stakes gambler Jim Bennett. His debt forces him to borrow money from his unpleasant wealthy mother (Jessica Lange) and, when he […]
The Ritz premiered on Broadway in 1975 with a cast including Jack Weston, Rita Moreno, Jerry Stiller and F Murray Abraham, all of whom reprise their roles in the 1976 film. Treat Williams is a […]
The slick and complex 1969 neo-noir thriller film Marlowe stars James Garner as Raymond Chandler’s all-time great LA private eye Philip Marlowe. It also stars Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O’Connor, Rita Moreno, Bruce Lee, Sharon Farrell […]
Writer-director-star Woody Allen’s wry and warm 1984 movie about life on the lower rungs of the showbiz ladder is delightfully quirky and affectionate. The third of Allen’s 13 movies with Mia Farrow, and Allen’s […]
Writer-director Woody Allen’s 1999 Jazz Age fable takes the form of a fanciful, fictional tribute to the legendary 30s jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (Sean Penn), who was second only to Django Reinhardt as a music […]
In this dour and ultra-violent action thriller, Denzel Washington plays the mysterious Robert McCall, a widowed Boston retired Special Forces officer, who spends his days in a humdrum job in a home improvement store and […]
Hooray for one of James Cagney’s most iconic and brilliant performances as Tom Powers, a fiery, hot-tempered lad from the Chicago slums who grows up to be a young hoodlum and rises high up through the […]