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Director Franklin J Schaffner’s 1973 prison drama stars a suitably gaunt-looking Steve McQueen as Henri ‘Papillon’ Charrière – the symbolic Butterfly of the story – in this long and expensive version of the best-selling novel by real-life […]
Fritz Lang’s riveting 1941 wartime thriller Man Hunt finds Walter Pidgeon well cast as an English big game hunter who misses his chance to kill Adolf Hitler. Director Fritz Lang’s riveting 1941 American wartime thriller […]
Co-writer/director Jean Renoir’s 1937 humanist and pacifist masterwork about two French officers being captured World War One is one of the great treasures of French and indeed world cinema. It is based on Renoir’s own […]
In 1958 director Bert I Gordon delivers a quite lively black-and-white science fiction sequel to his The Amazing Colossal Man (1957). It continues that movie’s storyline, but it was not marketed as a sequel and features […]
Animation king Don (Anastasia) Bluth shows his versatility by heading for space this time in 2000 in a highly imaginative, explosively paced, gleamingly dark-looking adventure. Matt Damon provides the voice of the hero Cale, an […]
Don Siegel’s exciting 1968 cop thriller film Coogan’s Bluff stars Clint Eastwood as an Arizona deputy sheriff who travels to New York City to extradite a prisoner (Don Stroud), who escapes and is wanted for […]
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 […]