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Julian Fellowes won an Oscar for the witty Best Original Screenplay for this civilised 2001 entertainment, based on an idea by its producers, the director Robert Altman and actor Bob Balaban. It plays like a […]
A homespun murder story. The Coen brothers Joel and Ethan are on their best, most exhilarating form in this corking real-life-derived 1996 thriller. It won a Best Actress Oscar for Frances McDormand as the nice, […]
Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie star as three ambitious but dim Miami bodybuilders just living the American dream in the nineties – kidnapping, torture, extortion, murder and hacking up of body parts. Goodfellas […]
It is easy to relish the charismatic characters of arch manipulator and lying thief, brilliantly played by the stylish star duo of Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren, in Alfred Hitchcock’s dark 1964 romantic thriller film […]
An unrecognisable Charlize Theron is an amazing revelation in her 2004 Best Actress Oscar-winning role as blowsy, lowlife Daytona Beach hooker Aileen Wuornos, who went on a killing spree in late-80s Florida, bumping off seven […]
The original 1960 Ocean’s Eleven is a very relaxed and agreeable comedy-crime caper with style to spare. Admittedly, at 127 minutes, it’s over long, too slackly paced, and the thin, fantasy thriller plot takes a […]
Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg chat away inconsequentially, Tarantino-style, in a diner, discussing meals and donuts while they plan to rob the sleepy bank across the road. But nothing is what it seems in this […]