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Time has been kind to this almost forgotten gem of 50 years ago. Jerry Schatzberg’s 1973 drama film Scarecrow stars Gene Hackman and Al Pacino, who light sparks as drifters who meet up and form an […]
Director Kevin Hooks’s 1998 movie stars Patrick Swayze, who goes for a modest comeback in a very basic, threadbare B-movie thriller about a down-on-his-luck ex-con trucker called Jack Crews. He takes a job driving a truck […]
Fritz Lang’s splendid 1937 film noir crime melodrama thriller You Only Live Once is one of his best, most distinguished movies. It stars Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney and is set in Depression-hit America. Director […]
Mark Wahlberg stars as ex-con Leo Handler who is freed from jail and finds himself drawn into the business of renovating New York’s subway cars by his aunt Kitty Olchin (Faye Dunaway)’s new husband, Frank […]
Bickering middle-aged married couple Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone quit the Manhattan rat race and buy a creaky old manor house in nice upstate New York, relocating there with their two kids (Kristen Stewart, Ryan […]
Brick Mansions is dedicated ‘In loving memory of Paul Walker’ before the end credits. That’s cause for lots of tears and heartache among his zillions of fans. It would be great to report that this, his […]
Jude Law tries a role he isn’t really suited for – notorious safe-cracking lowlife Dom Hemingway, who’s served 12 years in prison after keeping his mouth shut and is now back on the streets of London looking […]