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London writer and director John Michael McDonagh’s welcome and tastily edgy but slightly off-kilter and struggling 2016 black comedy thriller re-tells the very familiar tale of two corrupt cops in New Mexico who enjoy blackmailing and […]
Director Jacques Tourneur’s brilliant 1943 film noir horror thriller for producer Val Lewton boasts a marvellously eerie atmosphere thanks to Tourneur’s skills and Robert De Grasse’s beautiful and evocative camerawork. And the music by Roy […]
Director Gordon Douglas’s vintage 1954 sci-fi horror thriller Them! is still good fun thanks to the taut pace and admirably serious approach he brings to it. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Special Effects. […]
Woody Harrelson and Billy Crudup give impressive performances in British director Stephen Frears’s brave, gritty, 1998 Western, set in the mid-20th century. They play World War Two veterans, Big Boy Matson and Pete Calder, who return […]
Warner Bros’ punchy 1932 boxing drama film Winner Take All stars James Cagney as a talented upcoming boxer called Jimmy Kane, who falls for a sweet widow (Marian Nixon) with a kid (Dickie Moore). Producer-director […]
Director Ron Underwood’s 1991 blockbuster comedy Western is great escapist fun and deservedly cleaned up at the box-office. Star Billy Crystal gives a sharp and confident comedy performance and penned the outline of the fresh-seeming […]
Doc Holliday (Walter Huston) welcomes Billy the Kid (Jack Beutel, or correctly Buetel) into his ranch where Billy forcibly romps in the hay with Doc’s mistress, a big-breasted country woman called Rio McDonald (Jane Russell) […]