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BMX Bandits takes us back to the early Eighties BMX bike craze and a time when Nicole Kidman was a teenager. Where there’s a craze, there’s a movie and here is a bright but daft […]
The intense and involving 1965 suspense thriller The Collector stars Terence Stamp as a deranged bank clerk and butterfly collector, who decides to collect human specimens, and abducts a young art student (Samantha Eggar). Director […]
Producer Roger Corman’s 1958 teen exploitation film The Cry Baby Killer stars Jack Nicholson, who makes his promising début as a teenage juvenile delinquent at the age of 21. Director Justus Addiss’s 1958 teen exploitation film […]
Director Peter Collinson’s well-cast but unambitious crime melodrama 1977 Tomorrow Never Comes is an unofficially reworked variant on the 1947 American thriller The Long Night, itself a remake of the 1939 Jean Gabin French classic […]
The first shock in the 1982 thriller film Le Choc [Shock] is comes from seeing Catherine Deneuve as a turkey farmer and the second shock is when she finds a hitman (Alain Delon) hiding among […]
Director Daniel Petrie Jr’s engaging 1991 movie stars the 20-year-old cheeky-faced cherub Sean Astin as Billy Tepper, whose title gang of naughty but nice schoolboys do good when Luis Cali (Andrew Divoff)’s evil Colombian terrorists take […]
Director Michael Anderson’s meticulously crafted 1957 true-story account of the crippled British warship HMS Amethyst’s escape through heavy fire from being trapped on Yangtse River by the Red Chinese in 1949 is based on the […]