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Michael Corleone: ‘Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.’ Quibbles apart, Francis Ford Coppola’s 1990 crime film The Godfather: Part III is a worthy successor to his first two films. There […]
The top-notch 1971 British noir gangster thriller stars Michael Caine in one of his best roles as Jack Carter, a London-based crook who travels to Newcastle to investigate and avenge his brother’s murder. Based on […]
‘Put your hands up.’ ‘No.’ ‘What?’ ‘I said no.’ ‘Why not?’ ‘I don’t want to.’ ‘But I’ve got a gun.’ ‘I don’t care.’ ‘That doesn’t make any sense.’ ‘Too bad!’ With its delicious, ultra-witty script […]
Often unbearably tense and frequently hilarious, Quentin Tarantino’s second film, following his greatly admired 1992 cult hit Reservoir Dogs, is still his masterpiece. Tarantino’s brilliantly inventive and exuberant direction of his ultra-smart, sadistically violent 1994 […]
‘Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.’ Part II of The Godfather starts in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, in 1958, with the tormented Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) now head of the ‘family’, having inherited the […]
Although reluctant to take on the project, Francis Ford Coppola hit the jackpot with his 1972 film version of Mario Puzo’s saga about Mafia ‘family’ loyalties in the New York underworld, enjoying tremendous public and […]