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The Coen Brothers’ inspired 1994 satirical screwball comedy about big business and a corporate stock scam is a stunning-looking retro art object, with bravura visuals, witty dialogue, a great score by Carter Burwell and a […]
Director George Roy Hill’s funny, fast and furious 1977 ice hockey comedy drama stars Paul Newman, who is on top form as Reggie Dunlop, an ageing player-coach sports star who plays dirty to win. His struggling Charlestown […]
Director Victor Saville’s 1954 historical epic saga, based on the 1952 novel by Thomas B Costain, is a legendary bad movie. Its star, Paul Newman, took out a newspaper ad in America to ask people […]
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 […]
A blaze breaks out in the Glass Tower, a state-of-the-art San Francisco high-rise building during the glitzy opening ceremony attended by a host of city celebrities, in director John Guillermin‘s terrifyingly nail-biting 1974 skyscraper-on-fire movie The […]
Paul Newman didn’t attend the Academy Awards ceremony when he won his long-overdue Best Actor Oscar for Martin Scorsese’s The Color of Money in 1987. Nor did he when he won an honorary award the […]
Writer-director Robert Benton’s small but perfectly formed 1994 film Nobody’s Fool landed Paul Newman with a deserved Best Actor Oscar nomination for his sterling turn as Sully Sullivan, an ageing small-town construction worker who has a […]