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The 1963 black and white Egypt jewel treasures heist caper thriller film Cairo is one of MGM’s three attempted remakes of the 1950 classic The Asphalt Jungle, with the supposedly ‘perfect’ robbery this time effectively […]
Director Neil LaBute’s 2000 comedy Nurse Betty stars Renée Zellweger, who is marvellous as the cheery but strange and dogged Kansas City waitress Betty, who goes off in search of her smug soap-opera idol Dr David Ravell […]
Director Alan J Pakula’s The Devil’s Own (1997) is a poor and diabolically misguided action crime drama using the IRA, gunmen and terrorism as a subject for thriller entertainment. Brad Pitt makes the mistake of playing deadly […]
‘Mr Hardy had the sniffles – his carburetor hadn’t been right for days and days.’ Stan Laurel ministers to Oliver Hardy, who has got a terrible cold, but naturally he soon nearly wrecks the place, […]
Producer-director Harvey Berman’s 1960 The Wild Ride stars Jack Nicholson as rebellious Beat Generation punk Johnny Varron, an amateur dirt track driver, party boy and trouble maker. [Spoiler alert] Johnny is on the road to ruin. He kidnaps […]
Writer-director Jim Cummings also stars brilliantly in the clever, charming and heartfelt Thunder Road (2018) as police officer Jim Arnaud, who goes into a personal meltdown after his divorce and the death of his mother, leading to […]
Writer-director Leo McCarey’s 1929 20-minute two-reeler black and white short film Liberty stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as escaped convicts from warden Tom Kennedy’s prison, having trouble with their stripey prison clothes during their […]