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Robert Mitchum gives a legendary performance as a one-time private eye, caught between a mobster (Kirk Douglas) and a femme fatale (Jane Greer), in the brilliant 1947 film noir classic Out of the Past [Build […]
‘They have to die , they can die slowly or they can die fast but they have to die.’ In director Gary Fleder’s exceptionally dark, dangerous and disturbing 1995 film noir, Andy Garcia enjoys and […]
Director Arthur Penn’s 1967 classic Bonnie and Clyde is one of the most memorable icons of Sixties cinema and the gangster movie of the era. ‘They’re young. They’re in love. They rob banks.’ Warren Beatty […]
The darkness falls over Gotham City and co-writer/director Christopher Nolan’s thrilling 2005 Batman/Dark Knight reboot is a triumph, and so is Christian Bale’s sombre Bruce Wayne/Batman, who is centre stage all the way as we discover […]
Director Tony Scott’s shocking and exhilarating 1993 crime thriller turns Quentin Tarantino’s pre-Reservoir Dogs screenplay into an astounding designer-violence style object. It is a heady, giddying odyssey into the dark side. Christian Slater stars as […]
Director Fritz Lang’s 1953 humdinger of a film-noir classic crime thriller The Big Heat sees the director and his actors shooting with all guns blazing. Glenn Ford stars as tough, maverick cop called Detective Sergeant […]
Director Nick Love’s 2005 film stars Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan and Roland Manookian, all of whom were in Love’s previous film The Football Factory. The cool look and sounds of the Eighties conjure up the otherwise ghastly […]