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Director Michael Elliott’s 1983 TV movie King Lear stars Laurence Olivier in his last great gasp as the Shakespearean royal father, more sinned against than sinning, a role he was so desperate to record that […]
Director Michael Apted’s 1983 Gorky Park stars William Hurt, Lee Marvin and Brian Dennehy, who are all excellent in this sombre, well-crafted and at least half-decent thriller, scripted from Martin Cruz Smith’s bestseller by controversial […]
Director Chen Kaige’s dazzling, rivetingly compelling, exquisitely made 1998 Chinese period drama The Emperor and the Assassin [Jing Ke ci Qin Wang] is set in the 3rd century BC and chronicles the efforts of an […]
Director J Lee Thompson’s competent but disreputable 1984 vengeance/ executioner action thriller stars weary old Charles Bronson, who is still doing his vigilante violence at the age of 62, this time as Holland, a retired hit […]
Director Larry Clark’s intelligent, controversial and uniquely disturbing 2001 American psychological crime drama stars Brad Renfro, Bijou Phillips, Rachel Miner, Michael Pitt, Leo Fitzpatrick, Kelli Garner, and Nick Stahl as the bully Bobby Kent. Based […]
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