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Don Siegel’s exciting 1968 cop thriller film Coogan’s Bluff stars Clint Eastwood as an Arizona deputy sheriff who travels to New York City to extradite a prisoner (Don Stroud), who escapes and is wanted for […]
Troubled writer-director-star Charles Chaplin satirises America in the witch-hunt era of the Fifties and his personal history in a story seen through the eyes of a disillusioned foreign ruler in New York. Chaplin plays the […]
Fritz Lang’s fine 1956 film noir While the City Sleeps is inspired by the Chicago Lipstick Killer, and stars Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders and Vincent Price. The great director Fritz Lang’s bizarrely plotted […]
Recalling the young Al Pacino, no less, Oscar Isaac gives an electrifying performance as Abel Morales, an ambitious American immigrant who fights to protect his increasingly iffy business and his family during 1981, apparently the most […]
John Frankenheimer’s welcome 1975 thriller film French Connection II is not quite such a spectacularly brilliant movie as the original, but as a sequel to one, it’s first class. Gene Hackman brilliantly reprises his Oscar-winning […]
Director Stephen Brill’s 2000 silly comedy tries hard to raise laughs but it is mostly almost painfully unfunny. Adam Sandler stars as Nicky, the geeky, mild-mannered son of The Devil (Harvey Keitel), sent from Hell to New […]
The delightful 1937 screwball comedy film Nothing Sacred stars Carole Lombard as the supposedly sick Hazel Flagg of Warsaw, Vermont, and Fredric March as a sleazy New York reporter creating sob stories out of her […]