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Based on Horace McCoy’s 1935 novel, director Sydney Pollack’s 1969 study of disparate group of characters desperate to win a gruelling 1932 Depression-era dance marathon is both incredibly atmospheric and evocative as well as thoughtful […]
Director Joe Dante’s 1998 release is a patchy but lively and exuberant toy-action comedy adventure. The tale is daft and thin, but there are plenty of goodish jokes to spin it out in the adroit […]
After her parents are killed in a car accident, orphaned teen Leelee Sobieski and her little brother Rhett (Trevor Morgan) travel to Malibu to live with Erin and Terrence Glass (Diane Lane, Stellan Skarsgård), their […]
American movies fans forked out more than $100 million for director Jan de Bont’s daft but ingenious and amusing 1999 supernatural chiller. It’s the old, old haunted house story. With no acting really required, Liam […]
Billy Bob Thornton’s 2000 Western film All the Pretty Horses is astonishingly high, wide and handsome, adapting Cormac McCarthy’s highly regarded 1992 novel. Matt Damon and Henry Thomas play Texan misfit cowboys who travel to […]
Alfred Hitchcock’s 53rd and final movie Family Plot, made in 1976 when he was 76, is a deliciously playful, witty farewell. He called it ‘a melodrama treated with a bit of levity and sophistication. I want […]
‘When a man stops caring what happens, all the strain is lifted from him. Suspicion and worry and fear, all things that twist his thinking out of focus are brushed aside, and he can see […]