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Director Norman Jewison’s stupendous 1967 detective thriller In the Heat of the Night showcases Rod Steiger’s storming Oscar-winning performance as racist bigot Southern sheriff Police Chief Bill Gillespie and Sidney Poitier’s distinguished, graceful performance as […]
Writer-director Bryan Forbes’s 1984 thriller, made for producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus’s Canon Films, was his 14th and final movie as director. It is an adaptation of Sidney Sheldon’s novel and stars Roger Moore […]
Cult favourite director Robert Altman’s 1992 Hollywood-insiders’ comedy thriller and satire on the film industry is one of his smartest, most celebrated movies. It is an all-knowing, lovingly-made movie, delightfully light-hearted and thoroughly entertaining with […]
Writer-director Sergio Leone’s splendidly and impressively over-the-top 1972 modern Western is set in Mexico in 1913 at the time of the Mexican Revolution. Succeeding by excess, this nevertheless thoughtful and intelligent action spectacular turned out to be […]
‘You don’t understand. I could’ve had class. I could’ve been a contender. I could’ve been somebody instead of a bum, which I am.’ – Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando). In a truly great performance, the 30-year-old Marlon […]
Director Fred Zinnemann’s 1955 evergreen classic musical is the absolutely glorious, definitive movie of the 1943 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II hit show, imaginatively filmed by cinematographer Robert Surtees in Todd-AO widescreen and Technicolor […]
‘Nice planet. We’ll take it!’ A flying saucer buzzes round the Warner Brothers logo, the US President announces Martians have been spotted circling Earth, but the bug-eyed guys claim ‘We come in peace!’ Phew, that’s […]