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John Wayne was none too well, aged 67 and showing it when he played the surprisingly elderly Irish-American police detective lieutenant Jim Brannigan, who visits tourist London to collect an American mobster Ben Larkin (John […]
Producer-director Don Siegel’s gritty 1973 neo-noir crime thriller Charley Varrick is a total humdinger. It is flown to glory with the nimblest of serious work from Walter Matthau as Charley Varrick, a former stunt pilot turned […]
‘I know what you’re thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? You’ve got to ask yourself one question: do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?’ – Inspector Harry Callahan. Director Don Siegel’s […]
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1969 spy thriller Topaz is one of his least interesting films, despite being based Leon Uris’s top bestselling novel. But it remains entirely watchable thanks some fine performances and a few typical Hitchcock […]
In 1978, the year of Eraserhead and The Deer Hunter, we were also laughing, thank goodness. Debut director John Landis’s outrageous teen comedy National Lampoon’s Animal House is extremely bold and hysterically funny. A landmark movie, […]
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