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Director John Carpenter, who had just done horror so brilliantly with Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and Halloween (1978), comes up with this feeble, daft and unconvincing 1980 spook chiller. In Carpenter’s screenplay, written with Debra Hill, […]
Norman Jewison’s 1975 futuristic sci-fi thriller film Rollerball is a triumph. It stars an outstanding James Caan, John Houseman, Ralph Richardson, Maud Adams, John Beck and Moses Gunn. Producer-director Norman Jewison’s 1975 futuristic sci-fi thriller film […]
Nicholas Ray’s 1948 film noir They Live by Night stars Farley Granger as a young fugitive who falls in love with a woman (Cathy O’Donnell) but they become a couple on the run. This beautiful, supremely sensitive, highly […]
Bill Murray gives a splendidly sour and grumpy star turn as Frank Cross, a hateful, curmudgeonly, Scrooge-like American TV executive, in the 1988 comedy film Scrooged. Bill Murray gives a splendidly sour and grumpy star […]
Citizen Kane (1941) is the cinema’s Hamlet. All that has to be done to defend it against attacks from the philistines is to screen it as often as possible to the young, the curious, the […]
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