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Australia, 1931. Three part-Aboriginal girls, Molly Craig (Everlyn Sampi) and her younger sister and cousin, escape their internment at the hands of the British, under the wickedly misguided ‘chief protector of Aborigines’ A O Neville […]
Director George Roy Hill’s 1969’s gem is a stupendous comedy Western that put him together with Paul Newman and Robert Redford and director Hill four years before they made The Sting together. Butch Cassidy and the […]
Harrison Ford teaches a masterclass in acting grim in David Janssen’s famed Sixties TV role as the fugitive Dr Richard Kimble in director Andrew Davis’s thrilling 1993 action movie, motoring on terrific suspense, relentless pace and dynamic […]
In 1998 Tommy Lee Jones enjoyably re-creates his Best Supporting Actor Oscar-winning role from the 1993 The Fugitive as US federal marshal Sam Gerard in this pacy, solidly entertaining, if slightly less thrilling sequel to […]
The sixth Muppet movie, the 1999 Muppets from Space, is an amusing, soft-hearted extra-terrestrial adventure about the search for the Great Gonzo’s past. Directed by Tim Hill in 1999, the sixth Muppet movie, subtitled the […]
The Coen Brothers Joel and Ethan direct George Clooney in 2000 in a patchy but posh and stylish and often very entertaining comedy drama. A super Clooney sings, does a Southern accent, plays comedy and […]
In 1937 Alfred Hitchcock freely adapts Josephine Tey’s classic crime novel A Shilling for Candles as one of his archetypal free-wheeling, fast-moving, witty bantering pursuit thrillers. Along with Strangers on a Train, The 39 Steps and […]