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Director Leslie Norman’s socially aware 1961 black and white film drama Spare the Rod is a sympathetic, involving exposé of the tough life in the British state schools of the day, with Donald Pleasence as […]
Screen tough-guy Charles Bronson and his wife Jill Ireland star in director John Sturges’s unusual, entertaining 1973 Spanish-shot Spaghetti Western about a loner mixed-race Indian American horse breeder rancher called Chino Valdez (Bronson) who defends his horse […]
Director Norman Taurog’s 1967 crime comedy musical is a harmless but really rather ghastly showcase for Elvis Presley, one of his weakest films. Chips Rafferty and Norman Rossington co-star as bumbling gem crooks pursuing rock singer […]
The 1942 drama film Pittsburgh does the good deed of reuniting the star trio of the same year’s The Spoilers – Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott and John Wayne. Director Lewis Seiler’s 1942 black and white […]
Director Angela Pope’s 1996 British drama is a bit of a sensationalist hotch-potch, though it is well meaning and, at least by Martin Donovan and Joely Richardson, very well acted. Martin Donovan plays GP Martyn […]
Christopher Walken stars as New York crime boss Charles Bennett, who is kidnapped from his favourite restaurant by four rich boys (Sean Patrick Flanery, Jay Mohr, Jeremy Sisto, Henry Thomas) and awakes to find himself […]
Director Tom McLoughlin’s 2001 Canadian thriller stars Andy Garcia as Michael Hunter, a grief-stricken psychiatrist who is battling the memory of his son’s suicide and living with the departure of his wife Penny (Chelsea Field) […]