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Director Steven Spielberg borrows from the style of his film-making hero David Lean, paying reverential homage to the director of Lawrence of Arabia and The Bridge on the River Kwai, for his sweeping 1987 war epic […]
The underrated 1982 sequel to 1980’s blockbuster spoof comedy hit Airplane! is cruder and it isn’t nearly as hysterical, but it’s still funny and enjoyable none the less. It boasts the inestimable advantage of many […]
The 1957 film Zero Hour! screenplay is used almost verbatim for its much more famous spoof Airplane!, including the hero being named Ted Striker. Dana Andrews stars in the 1957 drama film Zero Hour! as […]
The 1980 disaster comedy film Airplane! comes up fresh and hilarious every time you see it, thanks to the exuberant playing of the non-stop scattershot of gags, the good, the bad and the corny. Written […]
The first ever Best Picture Oscar winner (and only silent film to win) is still immensely stirring for its thrilling, atmospheric flying scenes, breathtaking dogfights and realistic sequences of trench warfare, filmed for real without […]
‘My name is Pussy Galore’. – Pussy Galore. ‘I must be dreaming’. – James Bond. German star Gert Frobe (1913-88) proves as ideal a villain as Auric Goldfinger as Sean Connery is a hero as […]
Steven Spielberg’s 2002 spellbinder proved one of his best films in years. It is an ultra-delicious, super-vibrant entertainment with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks perfectly cast and on fire as a real-life con artist and […]