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Director John Landis revisits with considerably less effect the territory he covered so successfully with his 1981 classic An American Werewolf in London for this disappointing if passable 1992 vampire horror thriller. The mix of fantasy, […]
Writer-directors Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski’s first-class low-budget Seventies-style horror movie stars Aaron Poole as cop Daniel Carter, who starts it off promisingly by discovering a blood-soaked man limping down a deserted road at night. Carter then rushes the […]
Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson are perfectly cast as 1975 cops Starsky and Hutch in director Todd Phillips’s jolly 2004 crime caper that wittily captures the old TV show’s wacky style and crazy haircuts. Stiller […]
Director Michael Cimino’s ferocious 1985 thriller Year of the Dragon is complex and exciting. It boasts a convincingly dangerous star performance from Mickey Rourke as Stanley White, the police detective on the edge who is […]
Director Billy Wilder makes the bold decision to film a musical by dumping all the original popular Broadway show’s songs for his 1963 comedy Irma La Douce. Apparently he did not feel comfortable staging song […]
John Wayne was none too well, aged 67 and showing it when he played the surprisingly elderly Irish-American police detective lieutenant Jim Brannigan, who visits tourist London to collect an American mobster Ben Larkin (John […]
Jean-Pierre Melville’s rousing, stylish 1972 French crime thriller Un Flic [Dirty Money] features an ideally cast Alain Delon as a rough cop (un flic) and Richard Crenna as a hoodlum, two tough guys involved in […]