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Director Albert Zugsmith’s 1962 black and white mystery crime drama Confessions of an Opium Eater [Evils of Chinatown] stars Vincent Price, who gets to go over the top again as 19th-century adventurer Gilbert De Quincey, […]
This high, wide and handsome, great big, expensive 1995 Western about gun-toting lawman Wild Bill Hickok from tough-guy writer-director Walter Hill, the maker of 48 Hrs. (1982), is a huge treat for action and Wild West fans. An ideally […]
All-American actor Charlton Heston (born plain John Carter) dons the British sleuth deerstalker and gets to play Sherlock Holmes for a surprisingly successful Sir Arthur Conan Doyle outing. It is tensely and atmospherically directed by […]
Director Daniel Algrant’s 2002 film stars a just brilliant Al Pacino, who scalds the screen as Eli Wurman, a burnt-out, over-stretched Manhattan PR press agent trying to arrange a charity function, struggling with actors and the […]
Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, this 2001 real-life Victorian melodrama suspense thriller from The Hughes Brothers Albert and Allen plays like a very loose unofficial remake of Bob Clark’s […]
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