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Director Basil Dearden’s 1968 British movie The Assassination Bureau stars Diana Rigg as English newswoman Sonya Winter, who sets out to expose a Russian criminal Ivan Dragomiloff (Oliver Reed)’s globetrotting band of terminators by romancing […]
Director Richard Donner’s 1995 action thriller Assassins stars Sylvester Stallone, who offers a monolithic, by-the-numbers performance as a jaded contract killer hitman called Robert Rath who plans to retire after one last job. But soon […]
Director Stuart Cooper’s 1977 Canadian neo noir thriller The Disappearance is a sleekly made and intriguing upmarket mystery, based on Derek Marlowe’s novel Echoes of Celandine, starring Donald Sutherland as a contract killer called Jay […]
Director Dennis Hopper’s 1990 Catchfire [Backtrack] stars Jodie Foster as an alluring modern artist called Anne Benton, who witnesses a mob killing and goes on the run from town to town, switching identities, chased by […]
Writer-director Tom Edmunds’s Dead in a Week: Or Your Money Back is a well acted, constantly amusing, often funny British black comedy thriller, with plenty of quirky ideas and just the right tone and attitudes. […]
The first shock in the 1982 thriller film Le Choc [Shock] is comes from seeing Catherine Deneuve as a turkey farmer and the second shock is when she finds a hitman (Alain Delon) hiding among […]
Writer-director Elaine May signed up real-life old friends Peter Falk and John Cassavetes for her 1976 Mikey and Nicky as long-time criminal buddies Mikey and Nicky, one of whom turns out to be designated by […]