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Director Giuliano Montaldo’s splendidly acted, provocative, sterling 1971 biopic of 1920s Italian-born US immigrant anarchists Nicola Sacco (Riccardo Cucciolla) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (Gian Maria Volonté), who are tired on trumped-up charges of robbery and murder […]
Co-writer/director Matthew Bright’s chilling 2002 docu-drama biopic of the prolific and notorious serial sex killer whose horrific crimes shocked 1970s America is exploitative and graphically nasty. Michael Reilly Burke stars as Ted Bundy and Boti […]
Director Lewis Allen’s intriguing 1955 film noir Illegal stars Edward G Robinson, Nina Foch, Albert Dekker and Hugh Marlowe. Robinson stars as canny former district attorney Victor Scott, who becomes a crooked lawyer for a […]
Oscar-nominated James Cagney sizzles in one of his most archetypal performances as William ‘Rocky’ Sullivan, a poor New York Lower East Side kid who grows up to be a gangster admired by a gang of […]
Tom Hanks is ideally cast as Paul Edgecomb, the head guard supervising prisoners on Death Row at the Deep South Coal Mountain Correctional Facility in the 1930s. When John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a gentle […]