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Willem Dafoe gives a knockout performance as the anxiety-ridden manager of a down-at-heel Florida motel in the environs of Disney World. Layered, textured and fascinating, it is certainly one of the best performances this always interesting […]
The enigmatic 1966 existential Western film Ride in the Whirlwind reunites screen-writer / star Jack Nicholson and director Monte Hellman, the duo responsible for The Shooting. Nicholson, Cameron Mitchell and Tom Filer play Wes, Vern […]
Donald Pleasence is ideally cast in the 1963 British film Dr Crippen as the real-life Edwardian doctor Hawley Harvey Crippen, who was hanged in 1910 for the murder of his wife. But was he really […]
Co-writer/ director Nick Park’s 30-minute Aardman 1995 Wallace and Gromit cartoon adventure – this time involving window-cleaners and sheep-sealers – is constantly inventive and hilarious. It won its maker Nick Park his third Oscar for […]
Alain Delon stars as a laconic professional gambler, who is relentlessly tracked down by hitmen, in the exciting 1980 French crime thriller Three Men to Kill [Trois Hommes à Abattre]. Working with director Jacques Deray […]
Director and star Buster Keaton’s 1924 film is an unassailable silent comedy classic from one of the greatest comedians of any era. The Great Stone Face plays a projectionist who dreams of detective success to […]
Director Elia Kazan’s stupendous 1947 real-life American crime film noir thriller Boomerang! tells the riveting, realistic true tale of a State’s Attorney (Dana Andrews) who sets out to discover the truth after he decides he […]