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‘ ‘If they move,’ orders William Holden’s Pike Bishop, ‘kill ’em.’ Director Sam Peckinpah’s crucial 1969 Western The Wild Bunch, famed for, or infamous for, depending on your viewpoint, its poetic bloodiness and death in […]
Martin Scorsese‘s spectacular 2006 crime thriller epic boldly remakes the 2002 Hong Kong cult favourite Infernal Affairs and hit the jackpot at the box office and the Oscars. winning four, including Best Motion Picture of the Year […]
Director Edward Zwick’s 1996 war movie stars Meg Ryan who is working outside her usual romcom comfort zone and isn’t really credible as an action woman. This flashback-told Gulf War drama is seen through the […]
Hannibal series producer Dino de Laurentiis hires Girl with a Pearl Earring director Peter Webber to direct the story prequel Hannibal Rising in 2007. Gaspard Ulliel stars as young Hannibal, who begins plotting his vengeance on […]
Director Ang Lee’s splendid 1999 American Civil War Western flopped at the box office but it is a near-masterpiece with great ambition, scope and visual sweep. Tobey Maguire and Skeet Ulrich star as Missouri boys Jake […]
Producer-director Mike Nichols’s 1998 film stars John Travolta, who enjoys himself enormously as US presidential candidate Jack Stanton, a virtually unknown Southern governor on a quest for the White House, with his savvy, ambitious wife […]
With a flash of his pearly whites and his big Samurai sword, Tom Cruise enjoyed in 2003 perhaps his most complex and demanding role so far as Captain Nathan Algren. Having battled in the US […]