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The 33-year-old director Dennis Hopper’s exhilarating, liberating 1969 landmark counter-culture classic Easy Rider stars himself with Peter Fonda (29) as Billy and Wyatt (nicknamed Captain America). They are a pair of bikers who ride […]
Dear Lou Bloom, You did real good! Congratulations to you and Video News Productions for your excellent Nightcrawler footage. Please give my best to Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed and Bill Paxton for their fine work […]
Director Jim McBride’s 1983 thriller stars the then young, sexy and underrated Richard Gere, who is on his top 80s form as Jesse Lujack, a preening, unprincipled petty hood on the run after he shoots a policeman. […]
Director Jack Smight’s hard-boiled 1966 detective-mystery thriller casts Paul Newman in an ideal guise as Lew Harper, an archetypal Los Angeles mean streets private eye, who is hired by the rich, wounded and woeful Mrs […]
‘Why buy the cow, when you can get the milk for free?’ Co-writer/director Walt Becker’s 2002 wilfully non-PC comedy is a shameful, hilarious, laddish hoot. Jerry O’Connell stars as Dave, a Los Angeles commitment-phobic yuppie who […]
Director Antoine Fuqua’s tough, well-made but depressing 2001 LA police thriller stars Ethan Hawke and Denzel Washington, who land a couple of really showy roles as good cop, bad cop. They are rookie Jake Hoyt and seasoned Detective […]
Rowan Atkinson scored a super-sized hit in 1997 with this nutty, big-hearted big-screen version of his popular TV show (1990-95). It cost $22million and grossed $182million worldwide, though only $45million of that was in the US. […]