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George Stevens’s ambitious 1956 film Giant was a triumph for him, winning the Best Director Oscar. But it is most memorable for 24-year-old James Dean’s final role as bitter entrepreneur Jett Rink, set on destroying […]
Director Jan de Bont’s incredibly fast-moving, nail-bitingly exciting 1994 action thriller turned into an instant classic and provided Keanu Reeves with his breakthrough blockbuster hit as young LAPD officer Jack Traven. It’s his job to save the […]
Paul Newman enjoys one of his most memorable and iconic cool roles as Cool Hand Luke in director Stuart Rosenberg’s tough, haunting and richly enjoyable 1967 prison movie classic. Gutsy prisoner Luke Jackson works on […]
Artist Julian Schnabel’s 1996 portrait of the New York art scene of the 80s and Jean-Michel Basquiat in particular, who in 1981 is propelled from an unknown 19-year-old graffiti writer into a rich and much-courted famous […]
Director Tony Scott’s shocking and exhilarating 1993 crime thriller turns Quentin Tarantino’s pre-Reservoir Dogs screenplay into an astounding designer-violence style object. It is a heady, giddying odyssey into the dark side. Christian Slater stars as […]
Apocalypse Now – and Forever! Co-writer/ director Francis Ford Coppola’s incredibly ambitious, wildly extravagant ($31 million) epic brilliantly reworks Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness as an examination of the absurdities and madness of the […]
‘It’s a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaws out. This is the mighty W.O.O.D., the musical voice of Lumberton. At the sound of the falling tree, it’s 9:30. There’s a whole lotta […]