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Director Norman Jewison’s 1978 film F.I.S.T. is based on a story by Joe Eszterhas, and stars Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Melinda Dillon, David Huffman, Tony Lo Bianco and Kevin Conway. With the help […]
Director John Landis’s likeable 1991 screwball crime comedy Oscar stars Sylvester Stallone as Angelo ‘Snaps’ Provolone, an Italian mobster who is asked by his young accountant (Vincent Spano) for his daughter’s hand in this frantic […]
Writer-director Daniel Petrie’s Canadian 1984 coming-of-age drama/ thriller The Bay Boy [Un Printemps Sous La Neige] stars Liv Ullmann, Kiefer Sutherland and Peter Donat. Life is nasty and brutish for 16-year old Donald Campbell (Sutherland) […]
If taste and talent were all, director Robert Benton’s 1991 film of novelist E L Doctorow’s fantasised biopic of young Billy (Loren Dean), who is taken up by the real-life Thirties New York City gangster […]
John Byrum’s 1975 daring comedy drama Inserts is ‘an erotic adventure in sex and cinema’ and stars Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Harper, Veronica Cartwright, Bob Hoskins and Stephen Davies. It was a critical and commercial failure, […]
Director Lloyd French’s 1933 20-minute comedy short The Midnight Patrol stars Stan Laurel and Hardy as radio patrol car cops. Now what police force in the world would take on Stan and Ollie? The stars […]
Director Pat O’Connor’s 1998 romantic comedy drama Dancing at Lughnasa tells the ripe tale of prim schoolmarm Kate Mundy (Meryl Streep) and her four unmarried sisters (Catherine McCormack, Kathy Burke, Sophie Thompson, Brid Brennan) in […]