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Producer-director John Boorman’s disturbing and chilling but thrilling 1972 adventure nightmare suspense thriller with a message is one of the key films of its era and an influential game-changer for this kind of story. It […]
The sparkling 1976 train-set comedy thriller Silver Streak has a golden streak and is a hilarious suspense ride. It kicked off a winning four-film partnership between Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. Writer Colin Higgins and […]
Director John Boorman’s 1977 Exorcist sequel doesn’t lack star power with Richard Burton and Louise Fletcher adding to the return of Linda Blair as little Regan MacNeil and Max von Sydow as Father Lankaster Merrin. […]
Christopher Reeve claimed that Superman II (1980) is ‘the best of the series’ and he was right. Superman II was filmed back to back with the 1978 Superman and was three quarters completed when tensions arose […]
Steven Spielberg’s 1979 epic comedy film 1941 about a Japanese submarine arriving off Los Angeles, causing panic in the wake of Pearl Harbor, was a huge, unexpected flop. John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Treat Williams and […]
Director Jim McBride’s hot and fresh 1986 erotic crime thriller stars Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin in their prime and on their peak form. They show they have the sexual chemistry to make screenwriter Daniel […]
Director Sidney Lumet’s 1976 four-Oscar-winner film Network has proved a highly regarded, lasting classic, an American satirical black comedy-drama gem. It has a great script and even greater acting. Network became only the second film to win three of the […]