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A vacation collapses amid blood, rattlesnakes and much talk of runes in director Jack Starrett’s devillishly bad, racily handled 1975 junk movie favourite, a Seventies trash classic. It tracks holiday-makers Roger and Frank (Peter Fonda […]
Writer-director John Hughes’s classy 1987 holiday road movie comedy memorably pairs Steve Martin with John Candy. Martin stars as straightlaced advertising marketing executive Neal Page, struggling to speed home for Thanksgiving, who finds he cannot […]
The 21-year-old from Dallas, Sasha Lane, makes a spectacular film debut as Star, an alluring lost teenager who is recruited by the wild and sexy Jake (Shia LaBeouf) to join his travelling magazine sales crew. As she crosses […]
Director Sydney Pollack teams up with Robert Redford again in 1979 for an interesting, if weird mix of modern-day Western, media satire and populist romanticism. It teams Redford with Jane Fonda, his 1967 co-star in Barefoot in […]
Co-story-writer/producer/director Bob Rafelson’s greatly admired 1970 classic Five Easy Pieces was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture. It stars Jack Nicholson, who is stupendous as Robert Eroica Dupea, a middle-class musician drop-out who, along […]
Director Howard Deutsch’s 1998 belated sequel to the 1968 classic would have been better years earlier, but it’s still a case of better late than never. After ten films teamed together, The Odd Couple II was […]
Stephen Dorff and Emile Hirsch are the American working-class Flannigan brothers. One lost a leg train-hopping; the other is a recovering alcoholic. Now Jerry Lee and Frank are forced to flee their Reno motel after getting involved […]