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Director Sam Peckinpah’s quiet 1972 Western masterpiece tells the beautiful, elegaic tale of a middle-aged rodeo star who finds a disturbed family clashing with property developers when he goes back to his Arizona home for […]
Director Buzz Kulik’s 1980 movie is Steve McQueen’s final film, made while he was tragically dying of lung cancer, leading to his untimely death on November 7 1980 at the age of only 50. While not perfect, it is […]
Writer-director John Milius’s 1973 thriller for American International Pictures casts Warren Oates in his first starring role as America’s public enemy number one John Dillinger. Début director Milius’s gangster movie is tough, pulsating and uncompromising […]
When Clint Eastwood returned to the US from Europe, after starring in three Sergio Leone Spaghetti Westerns, he was directed in Hang ’em High by Ted Post, who was a vital factor in making Eastwood […]
Director Bruce Geller’s 1976 horror thriller finds that the annual New Orleans Mardi Gras soon gets buzzing in a bad way when it is discovered that a cargo ship has brought in African killer bees. […]
The 1978 horror thriller The Swarm is a particularly silly disaster movie from the king of genre, producer-director Irwin Allen, that is a hoot to watch if you are in the right frame of mind. […]
Goldie Hawn and William Atherton star as Lou Jean and Clovis Michael Poplin in director Steven Spielberg’s excellent 1974 comedy drama about two fugitives from the law. Director Spielberg was just 27 and still a […]