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Rob Reiner films Stephen King’s gruesome shocker novel Misery with a relentless tension in this engrossing and startling 1990 horror movie starring James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen and Lauren Bacall. ‘Oh forgive […]
Norman Jewison’s 1975 futuristic sci-fi thriller film Rollerball is a triumph. It stars an outstanding James Caan, John Houseman, Ralph Richardson, Maud Adams, John Beck and Moses Gunn. Producer-director Norman Jewison’s 1975 futuristic sci-fi thriller film […]
Writer-director Michael Mann’s intriguing and involving 1981 neo-noir heist thriller Thief is his cinema début as director after the TV movie The Jericho Mile in 1979. It showcases a rich and riveting James Caan performance […]
Howard Hawks directs John Wayne and Robert Mitchum in this big Western film El Dorado late in all their careers in 1966. The 58-year-old Duke stars as the once-ace gunman Cole Thornton with a paralysed […]
Director Herbert Ross’s entertaining but less enjoyable 1975 sequel to Funny Girl has with the inestimable benefit of Barbra Streisand still enjoying herself as singer Fanny Brice, who this time marries the showman Billy Rose (James Caan) and a stormy […]
Director Karel Reisz’s visceral but cerebral 1974 thriller stars James Caan as college literature professor Axel Freed, who has a secret vice as a compulsive gambler with a masochistic urge to lose and an inability to stop […]
Director Lars von Trier’s challenging, not to say intimidating, 2003 epic is a minimalist parable playing out on a stage-like set. It stars Nicole Kidman, who gives a tour de force in one of her […]