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Director Fritz Lang’s 1953 humdinger of a film-noir classic crime thriller The Big Heat sees the director and his actors shooting with all guns blazing. Glenn Ford stars as tough, maverick cop called Detective Sergeant […]
The 1944 American film noir Farewell, My Lovely [Murder, My Sweet] stars Dick Powell in the first film to feature Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled private detective Philip Marlowe. ‘A Sensational Triumph for the NEW Dick Powell.’ […]
Barbara Stanwyck earned her fourth Oscar nomination for her thrilling performance in the compulsive 1948 classic film noir thriller Sorry, Wrong Number. Barbara Stanwyck earned an Oscar nomination for her thrilling performance as Leona Stevenson, […]
Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi and Adam Sandler star as three young American airheads, Chazz, Rex and Pip, band members who take over a famous rock n’ roll radio station to get their latest track played […]
She’s in the attic! Kim Basinger is confined in an unknown attic, kidnapped at gunpoint by a nasty gang, led by an evil cop (Jason Statham), who smash the phone landline, in the 2004 thriller […]
Encouragingly, Victim (1961) was popular, and made a profit. Better still, it was influential in changing attitudes and the laws in Britain regarding homosexuality. In 1961 closeted gay actor Dirk Bogarde took a huge risk […]
Director Lasse Hallström‘s deliciously sweet movie from 1993 is an enormously appealing heart-warmer. In a bit of a potential minefield, it doesn’t ever put a foot wrong. Johnny Depp stars as Gilbert Grape, who lives in Endora, […]