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The 1988 slapstick comedy film The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! stars the superbly droll Leslie Nielsen as crackpot cop Frank Drebin, who uncovers a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth II (impersonator […]
Airport is rightly considered by many to be the grandfather of the disaster movie genre as the precursor to later epic Seventies disaster films. In a dramatic 12 hours, the twin hazards of a severe […]
Director Mark Robson’s epic 1974 disaster movie is preposterously entertaining with the right manly main star in Charlton Heston (as construction engineer Stuart Graff), an ambitious, costly production, tedious personal dramas and excellent Oscar-winning visual […]
‘Tina, bring me the axe’. Joan Crawford stars in the 1964 horror movie Strait-Jacket as an axe-wielding killer. Producer-director William Castle casts the great Joan Crawford, aged 59 in 1964, who follows up her success in […]
Young writer-director Michael Cimino’s exciting 1974 thriller finds Clint Eastwood on his best form as Thunderbolt, a hardened artilleryman bank robber who flees from jail, chums up with Lightfoot, an aimless, flippant, irresponsible, irreverent young punk (Jeff […]
Director Andrew V McLaglen’s exciting vehicle for the 57-year-old James Stewart, who was still a major star and box-office attraction in 1965, is a near-classic Western soap opera that mixes action and melodrama to good […]
Director Bruno Barreto’s 2003 comedy drama comes from Gwyneth Paltrow’s post-Oscar era when she was valiantly trying to extend her range. This took her into some odd and uncomfortable places, and this is one of […]