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Writer-director S Lee Pogostin’s 1969 thriller Hard Contract stars James Coburn, who is ideally cast in a quintessential role as John Cunningham, the cold-blooded American assassin who goes to Europe for one last hit, but […]
Writer-director Keith Gordon’s 1992 war drama A Midnight Clear is a moving anti-war tale adapted from William (Birdy) Wharton’s novel by director Gordon, filming in City Park, Utah, ironically during the Gulf War. It tells […]
Director Norman Taurog’s 1938 Mad about Music stars Deanna Durbin as Gloria Harkinson, the sweet young girl who enlists a visiting nice chap English composer Richard Todd (Herbert Marshall) to play her pop when she is left […]
The Bill Douglas Trilogy, made on tiny budgets from the British Film Institute, are dour and downbeat, highly personal autobiographical films, but they cast a remarkable spell in terms of mood and emotion that is […]
Spider-Man: Far from Home is laid back, light hearted, and light weight. It mixes sentimentality with goofy teen laughs, sitcom soap opera and endless CGI action to polished, pleasant, painless effect. They have cleverly made […]
Director Arthur Penn’s 1985 Target is a tolerable but off-target thriller from the director of Bonnie and Clyde, who goes into overdrive to try to provide action thrills, which nevertheless just are not there. It […]
Real-life tragedy occurred during the making of director Mark Robson’s ultra-expensive ($12 million) big-budget 1979 European spy action thriller, when star Robert Shaw and director Robson both died of heart attacks during filming. It was […]