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Joshua Jackson stars in director David Semel’s 2002 movie as a young Texas small-town mechanic, who lands in trouble when he has to bail out his fiancée Baby (Jamie King)’s dim cousin Junior (D J […]
Director James Foley is just the right man to handle briskly, efficiently and confidently this old-style 2007 cat-and-mouse mystery crime thriller, adding just a little needed style to a potboiler project. The strong casting helps too. […]
Director Tim Hunter’s notable 1986 cult success River’s Edge boasts outstanding, memorable eccentric acting turns from Dennis Hopper as Feck, a crippled drugs supplier, and Crispin Glover as Layne, a crazy customer. Neal Jimenez is […]
Producer-director Martin Ritt’s double Oscar-winning 1979 drama Norma Rae was a triumph for him and his plucky star Sally Field, who deservedly, though unexpectedly, won her first Academy Award as Norma Rae, the underpaid young American […]
Ryhs Ifans stars as Pete Thompson, whose father dies and he expects to inherit the family business. But then his crooked accountant Sean Deeny (Joseph Fiennes) plots to sell it off to a Russian mob, […]
Frank Tuttle’s 1935 crime mystery film The Glass Key is the excellent first movie of the 1931 Dashiell Hammett classic thriller novel, with its stars George Raft and Claire Dodd ideally paired. ‘He asks no […]
Co-producer/ director Martin Ritt’s engrossing serious-minded 1976 comedy drama about Hollywood’s Fifties anti-leftist witch-hunts stars Woody Allen in one of his few films as actor only. Ritt called it ‘a film filled with bitterness and irony […]