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Director Max Mayer’s appealing 2013 bitter-sweet comedy drama stars Sarah Bolger as smart 16-year-old tomboy Lucy Diamond (as in the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds) who comes of age in a small town with her […]
Quintessential tough-guy Joe Don Baker enjoys his breakthrough role as real-life Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser in the 1973 vigilante film Walking Tall. Quintessential tough-guy Joe Don Baker gets one of his best roles and gives a sterling performance as real-life Southern sheriff […]
Otto Preminger’s stylish and intriguing 1945 film noir thriller Fallen Angel stars Alice Faye, Dana Andrews and Linda Darnell. Producer-director Otto Preminger’s stylish and intriguing 1945 film noir thriller Fallen Angel stars Dana Andrews as slick, down-on-his-luck […]
Director Chris Fisher’s unpopular and unsuccessful 2009 sequel to Donnie Darko (2001), S. Darko, centres unprofitably on Sam (Daveigh Chase), Donnie’s younger sister, and her best friend Corey (Briana Evigan), who get entangled in a dangerous […]
Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1946 drama stars Olivia de Havilland in one of her best performances, winning her first Best Actress Oscar as an unmarried mother who regrets giving away her son (John Lund in his […]
The burning 1988 thriller film Mississippi Burning stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe as FBI agents investigating suspected Ku Klux Klan murders of three young civil rights activists in the American Deep South in 1964. […]
Based on Pete Dexter’s novel, director Stephen Gyllenhaal’s opulently filmed 1991 Deep South thriller, set in a small Georgia town in the 1950s, is a savage and uncomfortable experience. It concedes centre stage to Dennis Hopper’s […]