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Director Harald Reinl’s 1961 black-and-white crime thriller The Return of Dr Mabuse [Im Stahlnetz des Dr Mabuse], made in West Berlin, follows Fritz Lang’s The 1,000 Eyes of Dr Mabuse [Die 1000 Augen des Dr Mabuse] (1960) as the […]
Nominated for the 2011 Golden Globe and Bafta awards as Best Animated Film, directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud’s delightful 2010 3D computer-animated comedy springs to life with its smashing story, superlative characters and great voice cast. Steve […]
It’s lucky 13 when George Clooney returns again as Danny Ocean and rounds up his boys Brad Pitt’s Rusty Ryan, Matt Damon’s Linus Caldwell and co for a third heist, after Al Pacino’s casino owner Willy […]
The normally very serious-minded Joseph Losey reunites in 1966 with Dirk Bogarde, his star from The Servant and King and Country, for an engaging, kitsch, tongue-in-cheek Avengers-style Swinging Sixties comic spy spoof based on the […]
Director Cliff Owen’s vintage 1962 comedy stars Peter Sellers, who finds one of his most rewarding British parts as Pearly Gates, a criminal mastermind. This exuberant, delightful farce about bungling crooks in the London underworld […]
Three acting greats — Robert De Niro, Edward Norton and Marlon Brando — are lined up for director Frank Oz’s thrilling and stylish 2001 heist film. It’s set in Montreal, where a priceless ancient sceptre is […]
Three years on from Batman Begins (2005), co-writer/director Christopher Nolan follows up with his 2008 Batman/Dark Knight reboot sequel that is arguably even more thrilling. This time Nolan boldly takes on Tim Burton’s Batman (1989) directly, […]