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Co-writer J J Abrams makes his first film as a director in the 2006 third instalment of the Mission: Impossible franchise, in which Tom Cruise’s agent Ethan Hunt has retired from field work for the […]
Director Roger Donaldson’s 1994 action crime thriller is a surprise remake of the Steve McQueen-Ali MacGraw 1972 classic favourite. This time Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger star as the crooks on the run from both […]
Writer-director Joel Schumacher’s rather weird and wonderful 1999 comedy drama hits the spot, a success in large part to do with its two star performances. Though both cast to type – just imagine if they’d […]
Director Bob Balaban’s 1993 teen black romantic comedy satisfyingly weird, well-meaning but shaky. It has a neat message and good performances, mainly by the old-time performers. The alternative title of Johnny Zombie tells the tale. Andrew […]
Jennifer Lawrence returns as Katniss Everdeen for the first half of the two-part finale film in the trilogy from Suzanne Collins’s novel sequence. Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth are back, too, as the men in […]
In another glum and dour adaptation of a John le Carré novel, a brutally tortured Chechen-Russian Muslim immigrant called Issa Karpov turns up illegally in Hamburg’s Islamic community, claiming his father’s ill-gotten fortune. The spy game […]
Director Tom Shadyac’s 1998 film is a good-hearted if sugary sweet, true-life-derived comedy drama, in which an ideally cast Robin Williams plays Hunter Patch Adams, an offbeat medical student in the 70s who illegally treats […]