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Even Danny DeVito cannot rescue director Brian De Palma’s tasteless and unfunny 1986 gangster crime comedy about two hoodlums called Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein, played by DeVito and Saturday Night Live alumnus Joe Piscopo (who […]
Director John Landis revisits with considerably less effect the territory he covered so successfully with his 1981 classic An American Werewolf in London for this disappointing if passable 1992 vampire horror thriller. The mix of fantasy, […]
Director Joseph Sargent’s 1984 drama stars James Cagney in his final film and sole TV film. Infirm and at the age of 84, he gives a likeable performance as Joe Moran, a retired, disabled, wheelchair-using […]
Gene Hackman and Anne Archer star in the thrillingly exciting 1990 American neo-noir action thriller film Narrow Margin, reworking the 1952 RKO classic. ‘It will take you to the edge of suspense.’ Director Peter Hyams’s ultra-suspense 1990 thriller […]
Director Jonathan Demme’s 1988 sweet and sophisticated Mob movie Married to the Mob stars a drop-dead gorgeous Michelle Pfeiffer, who turns in another winning performance as Angela deMarco, a woman who finds herself in mortal peril […]
Sydney Pollack’s complex and satisfying 1981 thriller film Absence of Malice stars Sally Field as a naïve reporter tricked by the FBI into framing a Miami liquor wholesaler (Paul Newman) with a false story. Producer-director […]
Writer-director Walter Hill’s dark, dour and downbeat 1996 American gangster movie remake of Akira Kurosawa’s classic Japanese adventure Yojimbo (1961) is a thrilling action movie. It stars Bruce Willis as John Smith, Christopher Walken as Hickey, Bruce Dern […]