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The all-time great 1978 war drama film The Deer Hunter is co-written and directed by Michael Cimino. Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage star thrillingly as Slavic-American steelworkers whose lives are upended after […]
Director Harold Ramis’s 1999 laughter-raiser is a hilarious Mafia comedy, with Robert De Niro deliciously sending up his Don Vito Corleone role in The Godfather: Part II (1974) and Billy Crystal ideally cast as the nervous […]
Al Pacino’s LA cop Lieutenant Vincent Hanna and Robert De Niro’s master thief Neil McCauley battle it out in Michael Mann’s brilliant cat-and-mouse epic gangster thriller film Heat. Tom Sizemore plays crew member Michael Cheritto. […]
Perfectly cast as Harry R Angel, a sweaty, seedy, careworn hard-boiled 1950s New York private investigator, Mickey Rourke gives the best performance of his long and varied and variable career. His mesmerising, first-rate turn is […]
Martin Scorsese boldly remakes J Lee Thompson’s much-admired 1962 thriller masterwork Cape Fear, based on John D MacDonald’s novel The Executioners. Scorsese has the right actor in mind in his regular star Robert De Niro, […]
The 2002 comedy About a Boy is an endearing, delightful, often hilarious movie, with a cute plot, a witty, quirky script, the smoothest of performances and polished handling by directors Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz, […]
In his final film, Sergio Leone’s great 1984 epic Once Upon a Time in America is a gargantuan gangster movie that follows the fortunes of a couple of friends who make a pact to share […]