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Otto Preminger’s popular and enjoyable 1954 classic Western film River of No Return has the huge advantage of starring Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe, who strike quite a few sparks. Director Otto Preminger’s popular and […]
Richard Dix was Oscar nominated as Best Actor in 1931 as Yancey Cravat in RKO’s Best Picture winner Cimarron, based on the popular novel by Edna Ferber. Director Wesley Ruggles’s creaky but still rewarding 1931 […]
Director David Lean’s 1957 dramatisation of Pierre Boulle’s 1952 French novel about the building of a Burma railway bridge under Japanese coercion by British prisoners-of-war is an enduring, magnificent achievement. It won seven Academy Awards, […]
Director Andrew Davis’s acceptable, formulaic 2002 thriller is a solid enough if unexceptional vehicle for old Austrian oak Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is back as an L.A. fire-fighter who sees his wife and son killed in a […]
Writer-director Jacob Aaron Estes’s 2004 well-crafted revenge thriller is taut, tense, creepy and a little bit scary. In Stephen King Stand By Me mode, it’s an unsettling little thought provoker as well as fear ride. Rory […]
In writer-director David Mackenzie’s 2003 film Young Adam, Ewan McGregor gives his best, most convincing performance in ages, back in his native Scottish accent and setting, and truly inhabiting his character as a young drifter […]
Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn lighting electric sparks off each other on screen together is the main attraction of the enchanting 1951 British-American romantic adventure drama movie The African Queen. Along with their stupendous star […]