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The brilliant 1959 Western film Last Train from Gun Hill comes from the star, director and producer of Gunfight at the OK Corral. Kirk Douglas stars as Marshal Matt Morgan, determined to bring his wife’s […]
American writer-director Billy Ray adapts Juan José Campanella’s 2010 Argentinian Oscar-winner Best Foreign Language Film El secreto de sus ojos [The Secret in Their Eyes] for an American remake. The 2015 thriller Secret in Their […]
Director John Hillcoat’s brutal epic cop thriller Triple 9 is tense, gritty and exciting, the realistic antidote to Ocean’s 11 heist capers. A Russian mob gang of criminals blackmails a crew of corrupt cops to pull […]
Stephen Rea stars as Irish saxophonist Danny, who gets in way over his head when he witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. After recalling to the police a […]
Director Norman Taurog and producer David O Selznick’s 1938 movie adaptation of Mark Twain’s beloved 1876 children’s favourite classic adventure story is a thoroughly enjoyable vintage entertainment. It is the first film version of the novel […]
Director Stephen Frears’s excellent 1971 British neo-noir retro-gangster yarn provides a heaven-sent acting opportunity for Albert Finney as Eddie Ginley, a music-hall comedian/ nightclub bingo caller who really wants to be Dashiell Hammett’s legendary fictional […]
Director Norman Foster’s 1937 black and white crime thriller Think Fast, Mr Moto stars Peter Lorre, who launches his series of eight films as the talented Mr Moto, in which author John P Marquand’s Japanese […]