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Director Lloyd Bacon’s exciting 1943 wartime flag-waving adventure movie is a self-proclaimed ‘thunderous story of the men of the merchant marine’ and focuses on American naval bravery in the face of a German submarine attack on […]
Director Michael Curtiz’s tremendous 1936 gung-ho action adventure film is supposedly based on Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem about the British army’s heroic cavalry charge into disaster at Balaklava in the Crimean War in 1854. ‘Half […]
The youngish Steve McQueen, already aged 32 after 10 years in the business, heads a powerful cast under Don Siegel’s snappy direction for this exciting, realistic 1962 World War Two war movie. It also stars […]
Robert Aldrich’s classic 1956 anti-war film Attack! is as uncompromising as it is powerful. It is one of the all-time great World War Two movies. Producer-director Robert Aldrich’s classic 1956 war movie, or rather anti-war […]
Director Kevin Reynolds’s 1997 drama is a worrying end-of-term report on America’s schools and can be considered as the To Sir, with Love for the Nineties. That fine actor Samuel L Jackson rivets the attention […]
Director John Ford is working at top level here in 1949 in this thrilling central episode of his US Cavalry trilogy with John Wayne, started with Fort Apache in 1948. Cinematographer Winton C Hoch won […]
Vin Diesel again stars as Riddick in writer-director David N Twohy’s great-looking, extremely expensive and highly ambitious but sadly failed 2004 sequel to 2000’s hit sci-fi thriller Pitch Black, based again on the characters by Jim and Ken […]