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Director John Flynn’s 1977 Seventies revenge film Rolling Thunder is a highly intriguing post-Vietnam thriller, in which a tortured former PoW, war hero Major Charles Rane (William Devane), sets off on the vengeance death trail […]
FBI agent Warren Stantin (Sidney Poitier) and mountain guide and expert tracker Jonathan Knox (Tom Berenger) team up to track an evil killer in Roger Spottiswoode’s tough, well-made 1988 action thriller Deadly Pursuit [Shoot to […]
Director James Hogan’s 1938 film The Texans is a faded but impressively big-scale Western with vigorous handling and feisty turns from a reliable cast. As Texas sorts itself out after the US Civil War, what […]
Director Bill Duke’s 1991 neo noir thriller A Rage in Harlem is based on Chester Himes’s novel and stars Forest Whitaker as clumsy but nice Harlem hero Jackson, who meets and falls for sassy and […]
Michael Caine returns for the fifth and final time as one-time British secret agent Harry Palmer, in the 1996 made-for-TV thriller Midnight in St Petersburg, the sequel to Bullet to Beijing, released the year before, […]
The Pharmacist is a quirky, funny 1933 American pre-Code 20-minute comedy film directed by Arthur Ripley and starring W C Fields as horribly henpecked pharmacist Mr Dilweg, who tries to deal with his comedically over-demanding […]
John C Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix get rewarding roles as killer brothers Eli and Charlie Sisters, who hunt down gold prospector Hermann Kermit Warm (Riz Ahmed) and his surprise ally John Morris (Jake Gyllenhaal), who was […]