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Director Richard Benjamin’s involving 1988 Cold War thriller stars Sidney Poitier and young River Phoenix as a sympathetic FBI man called Roy Parmenter and Jeff Grant, a teenage boy he helps out when it turns […]
Will Hay’s outrageous 1942 British farce is an intriguing and endearing collision between wartime morale-boosting propaganda and slapstick comedy, made at the height of World War Two. Its idea to ‘poke fun at the hun’ […]
Kenneth More does nicely in a smooth turn in the star part of Richard Hannay in director Ralph Thomas’s careful 1959 second screen version of John Buchan’s classic 1915 espionage novel The 39 Steps. Taina […]
Whatever has gone wrong with this stage to film transfer of the hit Broadway and London West End play by David Henry Hwang about a French diplomat serving in Beijing in 1964, who falls for Chinese opera […]
The Paramount studio decided that they wanted their goddess Marlene Dietrich to challenge rival studio MGM’s mighty reigning queen of Hollywood Greta Garbo head on. So, while Garbo was making Mata Hari, they cast Dietrich […]
Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson play the Sixties TV show characters in director Betty Thomas’s mild, slackly made 2002 action comedy that runs like a poor copy of a Bond movie. Wilson is his usual […]
Thrilling 3D effects spark writer-director Robert Rodriguez’s 2003 third part of his super teen spy series, in which spy-kid Carmen (Alexa Vega) is trapped in a video game by the evil Toymaker (Sylvester Stallone), and her brother […]