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James Toback directs his own script about a quiet virtuoso pianist, Jimmy ‘Fingers’ Angelelli (Harvey Keitel), who gets sucked into becoming a ruthless debt collector enforcing payment of debts for his Italian mob-connected loan shark […]
Writer-director John Cassavetes’s 1976 epic neo noir crime movie is another of his exciting part-improvised thrillers, propelled with a classic plot about gangster Mort Weil (Seymour Cassel)’s mobsters forcing a nightclub owner Cosmo Vittelli (Ben […]
Director Peter Yates’s frothy 1974 comedy is one of Barbra Streisand’s least substantial movies but it’s still likeable, light-hearted and fun. It pairs her with the equally likeable, light-weight Michael Sarrazin. Then and now, there’s […]
Director John Dahl’s mesmerising, ultra-stylish 1994 retro neo-film noir thriller is the third part of his marvellous trilogy following his critically acclaimed successes with Kill Me Again (1989) and Red Rock West (1993). Writer Steve Barancik’s screenplay […]
‘Listen, here’s the thing. If you can’t spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.’ – Mike McDermott. John Dall, the director of Kill Me Again, The Last […]
Director Barry Sonnenfeld’s amusing 1995 black comedy thriller is based on one of Elmore Leonard’s lowlife crime novels. It takes its honourable place among the good movies about the movies. John Travolta stars on finest […]
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