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Director Alfred Hitchcock wrote the original story for this richly enjoyable, flavoursome, unfairly neglected 1927 silent movie, in which Carl Brisson plays ‘One-Round’ Jack Sander, a young fairground-booth fighter who marries the cashier Nellie (Lillian […]
Fredric March and Janet Gaynor star as an alcoholic leading movie actor on the skids and his young wife whose film career is just taking off in director William A Wellman’s 1937 brilliant, unfaded original film […]
Martin Scorsese’s 1980 movie Raging Bull is one of this great director’s finest as well as one of the most iconic key films of the Eighties. Robert De Niro gives one of his most astounding performances, winning his […]
Director Clint Eastwood’s 2004 Oscar-winning movie Million Dollar Baby sees him also star as Frankie Dunn, a grizzled old hard-nut who owns a rundown old gym, where he scratches a living training boxers. One day […]
Brad Pitt buys into writer-director Guy Ritchie’s street-cred allure for the 2000 film Snatch, his eagerly-awaited follow-up to the 1998 Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels. What does Brad Pitt think he’s doing? He’s the […]
Here at long, long last in 2000 came a British movie to cheer about – and a new young star in the making in 14-year-old Jamie Bell. Billy Elliot is a follow that dream, rags […]
Director Fred Zinnemann’s film of James Jones’s best-selling novel about the appallingly harsh rigours of army life and deep sexual frustrations in 1941 Hawaii caused a worldwide sensation in 1953. It went on to win eight […]