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Unlikely renaissance man Albert Brooks co-writes, directs and stars in the funny, offbeat 1981 comedy Modern Romance about a compulsively neurotic movie editor called Robert Cole who cannot handle his fixation on beautiful, intelligent Mary […]
Director John Badham ‘s contrived 1991 The Hard Way stars Michael J Fox, playing famous Hollywood action star actor Nick Lang, who joins the police to see life as it really is, and joins forces […]
Director Robert Mandel’s bright, pacey 1986 thriller F/X – Murder by Illusion [F/X] has a lot of lively action, and, yes, lots of special effects. Bryan Brown stars as Rollie Tyler, a film special effects […]
Icíar Bollaín stars as the 15-year-old Spanish youngster Estrella, who heads south in search of answers to her father’s tragic death, in director Victor Erice’s beautifully handled 1983 tale of childhood innocence, The South [El […]
You would think that a film with Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, David Hyde Pierce, David Duchovny, Catherine Keener, Mary McCormack and Blair Underwood, directed by Steven (Ocean’s Eleven) Soderbergh, would be a must. But Steven […]
Writer-director Blake Edwards takes his revenge on Hollywood in his 1981 black farce S.O.B. about a film producer’s ploy to turn a flop into a hit: get Julie Andrews to bare her breasts! S.O.B. is […]
A Hollywood film company arrives in a Peruvian village to shoot a Western about Billy the Kid (Dean Stockwell) in director Dennis Hopper’s 1971 The Last Movie, a high-flown allegorical fantasy drama in which he also […]