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Director Sidney Poitier’s amiable enough 1980 comedy again pairs Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, this time as would-be actors Skip and Harry, who end up in America’s hinterlands, going Stir Crazy after being framed for […]
New York cop Detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) is engaged in a risky game of cat and mouse with smooth criminal Dalton Russell (Clive Owen), leader of a gang of robbers disguised in painters’ outfits, who storm […]
Director Daryl Duke’s first-rate, exciting, hard-driving 1978 Canadian neo noir thriller is co-produced and written for the screen by Curtis Hanson, Oscar-winning writer/director on LA Confidential. Elliott Gould and Christopher Plummer play a shy but sly […]
The young Woody Allen’s hectic 1969 first feature as director is a fresh seeming, hilarious delight, with the co-writer and star as inept criminal Virgil Starkwell who cannot even convince bank staff that they are […]
James Cagney stars in director William Keighley’s 1935 crime thriller as ‘Brick’ Davis, a thrusting lawyer, befriended and educated by big-time racketeer ‘Mac’ McKay (William Harrigan). Brick joins the side of justice as an FBI government […]
Writer-director Roland West’s 1930 film version of Mary Roberts Rinehart’s spooky mansion stage chiller play The Bat is inevitably creaky but suitably creepy and satisfyingly funny, as a master arch criminal called The Bat steals a necklace […]
Young writer-director Michael Cimino’s exciting 1974 thriller finds Clint Eastwood on his best form as Thunderbolt, a hardened artilleryman bank robber who flees from jail, chums up with Lightfoot, an aimless, flippant, irresponsible, irreverent young punk (Jeff […]