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Director Bill Duke’s quick 1993 sequel to the 1992 hit Sister Act betrays its hasty production in James Orr, Jim Cruickshank and Judi Ann Mason’s mediocre screenplay in this rickety vehicle for a likeable, amusing […]
The youngish Steve McQueen, already aged 32 after 10 years in the business, heads a powerful cast under Don Siegel’s snappy direction for this exciting, realistic 1962 World War Two war movie. It also stars […]
Director Michael Lehmann’s 1991 spoof adventure caper is game for a laugh but alas it is all too erratic and unfocused to provide the big guffaws and chortles you’d expect. Catch the Hawk, they advertised, […]
Cult favourite director Robert Altman’s 1992 Hollywood-insiders’ comedy thriller and satire on the film industry is one of his smartest, most celebrated movies. It is an all-knowing, lovingly-made movie, delightfully light-hearted and thoroughly entertaining with […]
Co-writer/director Tom Shadyac’s 1996 reboot of the 1963 hit focuses on Eddie Murphy’s tour-de-force acting in several roles that brought him his long-awaited comeback after a series of flops. This remake of the old Jerry […]
Writer-director Sergio Leone’s splendidly and impressively over-the-top 1972 modern Western is set in Mexico in 1913 at the time of the Mexican Revolution. Succeeding by excess, this nevertheless thoughtful and intelligent action spectacular turned out to be […]
Producer-director John Sturges’s memorable 1960 Western is deservedly greatly admired and much loved. It stars Yul Brynner in one of his best and most famous roles as the honourable and steadfast gunfighter Chris Adams, who recruits […]