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Director John Badham’s 1983 action-adventure crime thriller is a memorable humdinger. Roy Scheider eagerly grabs one of his best Eighties opportunities as Officer Frank Murphy, a Vietnam veteran turned cop, hit by trauma blackouts, who […]
There are a few bright spots and an ideal star to enliven this grim and largely misbegotten remake of the 1989 Dolph Lundgren action thriller, based on Stan Lee’s dark-toned Marvel comic-strip caper. Thomas Jane stars as […]
William Friedkin’s legendary five-Oscar-winning 1971 movie The French Connection is one of the all-time great action thrillers, with a star-making, Oscar-winning turn by Gene Hackman. Director William Friedkin’s legendary multi-Oscar-winning 1971 movie The French Connection […]
Producer-director Alan J Pakula’s dazzling and brilliantly acted classic 1971 thriller is a real mesmerising humdinger. It’s the first film of Pakula’s unofficial political paranoia trilogy that continued triumphantly with The Parallax View (1974) and […]
The triple-Oscar-winning 1975 monster movie classic that propelled the 28-year-old director Steven Spielberg to the front rank of cinema story-tellers is a sleekly crafted rollercoaster ride of fear, suspense and thrills. Based on the bestselling […]
Francis Ford Coppola’s magnetic 1997 thriller makes its case to win the award for the best film adaptation of a John Grisham legal mystery novel. It’s as tense, atmospheric, characterful and intriguing as they come. […]
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