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Game for anything, Scarlett Johansson is perfect as Lucy, an American in Taiwan whose new lover tricks her into delivering a mysterious briefcase to the terrifying gang boss Mr Jang (Min-sik Choi), who seizes her […]
The lean and hungry Eddie Murphy (just 23) scores a bull’s eye with the 1984 blockbuster comedy thriller film Beverly Hills Cop, bringing back the cynical, glossy flavour of the 80s. Murphy stars in his […]
Edgar G Ulmer’s all-time great, flashback-driven 1945 film noir thriller Detour is a deservedly celebrated cult B-movie classic. Ann Savage stars as the venomous Vera, a walking nightmare. ‘Fate or some mysterious force can put the […]
Director John McNaughton’s extremely sexy, smart, twisting and teasing 1998 teen thriller perhaps doesn’t quite deliver the class A goods, but it does a very good job of gripping, amusing and entertaining a lot along […]
Bruce Willis is back in top gear in 2005 for his die-hard fans as a failed LAPD hostage negotiator who’s now the police chief in a small California town. When their convenience store robbery goes wrong, the three crooks […]
Clint Eastwood makes a welcome return in 1973 to his iconic role as maverick cop Inspector ‘Dirty Harry’ Callahan in Magnum Force, the first sequel to his 1971 action thriller hit Dirty Harry, this time investigating […]
Director Michael Caton-Jones’s 2002 character-driven thriller is interesting and sometimes involving, but often surprisingly shaky. Ken Hixon writes the slightly struggling screenplay from an article, Mark of a Murderer by Mike McAlary. Well it’s more […]