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Director Oliver Hirschbiegel’s terrifying biopic of German radical Georg Elser is painstaking but incredibly painful to watch as most of the film consists of his torture by the Nazis. This is a true horror movie. It’s […]
Fritz Lang’s 1943 real-life film noir thriller film Hangmen Also Die! is based on the events of the previous year, in which the invaded country’s Nazi administrator was shot by unidentified Czech resistance fighters on […]
Salma Hayek goes through hell and high water to face down hitmen sent by her ex, a mob boss, while holed up in her apartment. Director Joe Lynch‘s inventive and exciting action thriller is very […]
Director Harold Becker’s 1998 thriller stars Bruce Willis as a caring FBI agent called Art Jeffries, who tries to save a nine-year-old autistic boy, Simon Lynch (Miko Hughes), from the clutches of Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Kudrow […]
Chuck Barris has a notable place in American TV history as the Sixties and Seventies deviser and host of The Dating Game (1965–1986), the original US version of Blind Date, and host of The Gong […]
In ancient China, a defence officer called Nameless (Jet Li) sets out to best the three killers, Broken Sword (Tony Leung), Flying Snow (Maggie Cheung) and Moon (Zhang Ziyi) who are hell bent on killing […]
Calvary is a mixed blessing. On the one hand we have Brendan Gleeson’s magnificent, layered, textured performance as an Irish priest, Father James Lavelle, an unequivocally good, wise man in a flawed, mad world full of idiots. We […]