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Henry Fonda re-creates his Broadway role as the war-mongering officer Lieutenant Roberts aboard a World War Two cargo ship battling with tyrannical ship’s captain Captain Morton (James Cagney), in the 1955 comedy drama film Mr […]
This strongly felt, nostalgic 1957 personal project from director John Ford turns out to be an uneven, minor airborne action drama providing an interesting but bumpy ride. But there are lots of incidental real pleasures […]
Lee Tamahori’s 2004 action thriller movie xXx2: The Next Level may not be terrible but it sure isn’t good. Both stars Ice Cube and Samuel L Jackson seem incredibly uncomfortable. So they couldn’t persuade Vin Diesel […]
South Pacific (1958) is certainly some enchanted evening in the cinema, as original theatre director Joshua Logan brings Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (score)’s classic 1949 Broadway musical to the screen with its […]
Tony Scott’s sizzling 1995 thriller film Crimson Tide is an old-fashioned full-speed-ahead action adventure, headlining a high-testosterone clash between two of Hollywood’s best 90s star actors: Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington. Director Tony Scott’s sizzling […]