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Popular and respected in its day, Maurice Cloche’s sincere and moving award-winning 1947 French film Monsieur Vincent tells episodically the story of Vincent de Paul, the 17th century priest, charity worker, social worker and saint, […]
Director Ralph Nelson’s 1962 black and white sports drama Requiem for a Heavyweight (Blood Money in GB) is a dour, nimbly-played fight movie, with the acting, fleshed-out characterisations and sweaty atmosphere stronger than the plot. […]
Director Simon Wincer’s hugely popular 1993 children’s film is simple, popular sentimental family adventure fare starring Jason James Richter as an abandoned 12-year old street kid called Jesse who befriends a three-ton orca killer whale trapped […]
Alain Delon gives a sympathetic portrait of an ex-con struggling to stay on the straight and narrow, in José Giovanni’s powerful 1973 French drama film Two Against the Law [Deux Hommes dans la Ville]. French […]
Don Siegel delivers a fine, cultish movie with the 1956 film noir crime drama Crime in the Streets, encouraging good gritty acting from John Cassavetes, Sal Mineo and Mark Rydell. John Cassavetes (aged 26 but playing […]
Director Rod Holcomb’s 1991 thriller is a missing John Travolta movie – and deservedly so – in which he plays Scott Barnes, a Miami social worker who infiltrates a dangerous drug-running street gang, run by Carlos […]
Director Tarsem Singh’s 2000 thriller stars Vince Vaughn as FBI agent Peter Novak, who tries to save a girl whom a sick serial killer (Vincent D’Onofrio) has trapped in a water-tank cell somewhere, with the […]