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Co-writer/ director Federico Fellini’s haunting, fascinatingly self-reflecting film from 1953 focuses on a group of five laddish youngster friends – Moraldo Rubini (Franco Interlenghi), Fausto Moretti (Franco Fabrizi), Alberto (Alberto Sordi), Leopoldo Vannucci (Leopoldo Trieste), Riccardo (Riccardo […]
Bill Paxton’s big break came with his lead role in director Carl Franklin’s critically acclaimed 1991 neo film noir about the hunt for a trio of gangsters holed up in an Arkansas small town after […]
Director Fred Zinnemann’s 1949 film noir thriller provides suspense and atmosphere galore as the embittered, vengeful former wartime prisoner-of-war Joe Parkson (Robert Ryan) hunts his former commanding officer, POW traitor Frank Enley (Van Heflin), who […]
‘Now He Knew Her as Other Men Had!’ The superior, touching 1953 soap opera film All I Desire is directed at full emotional throttle by Douglas Sirk and is stirringly acted, especially by the admirable […]
‘ARMED WITH A DOCTOR’S KIT, HE FACED 1000 KILLERS!’ Director William Dieterle’s 1935 romantic crime drama stars Paul Muni as Dr Lee Cardwell, an American small-town doctor-surgeon who operates to remove bullets from Red Bastian (Barton […]
The actor Sean Penn writes and directs this powerful 1991 film that tells the Seventies-set tale of two brothers, one the surprisingly nice, ordinary, well-adjusted highway patrolman Joe Roberts (David Morse), the other the handsome […]
Director Frank Darabont’s honourable 2001 drama stars Jim Carrey as Peter Appleton, an ambitious movie screenwriter in early 1950s America, who falls victim to the communist witch-hunts. He crashes his car, loses his memory and […]