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Louis Malle’s highly disturbing and controversial American debut with the 1978 Pretty Baby caused quite a few shock waves with its World War One story set in 1917 about a 12-year-old girl Violet (Brooke Shields), […]
Something is missing in director John Frankenheimer’s 1986 crime thriller film 52 Pick-Up – credibility, pace, wit and brevity for a start. The Cannon Group remake Elmore Leonard’s 1974 novel just 18 months after their […]
Alvin Rakoff’s 1958 British sexploitation drama film Passport to Shame [Room 43] is a downbeat crime tale about a taxi driver (Eddie Constantine), who weds a French woman (Odile Versois) for money and then protects […]
Writer-director Brian Helgeland’s 1999 neo noir crime thriller Payback stars Mel Gibson as tough ex-marine Porter, a hood who is double-crossed and shot in the back by his unfaithful junkie wife Lynn (Deborah Kara Unger) and […]
Director John Schlesinger’s 1975 drama The Day of the Locust stars William Atherton as Tod Hackett, an art director in the Hollywood of the 1930s who is heading for a nervous breakdown because of all […]
Director Tony Richardson’s 1984 The Hotel New Hampshire is an uneven but generally engaging version of the John Irving bestseller about a strange family and their adventures in America and Europe. It boasts a grand, […]
Director Harvey Hart’s intriguing 1973 Canadian supernatural horror film The Pyx is based on John Buell’s 1959 novel and stars Christopher Plummer as a Canadian cop, Montréal Police Detective Sergeant Jim Henderson, who exposes a […]