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Bill Paxton’s big break came with his lead role in director Carl Franklin’s critically acclaimed 1991 neo film noir about the hunt for a trio of gangsters holed up in an Arkansas small town after […]
Director Fred Zinnemann’s 1949 film noir thriller provides suspense and atmosphere galore as the embittered, vengeful former wartime prisoner-of-war Joe Parkson (Robert Ryan) hunts his former commanding officer, POW traitor Frank Enley (Van Heflin), who […]
‘Now He Knew Her as Other Men Had!’ This superior, touching 1953 soap opera is directed at full emotional throttle by Douglas Sirk and is stirringly acted, especially by the admirable Barbara Stanwyck. Stanwyck plays […]
‘ARMED WITH A DOCTOR’S KIT, HE FACED 1000 KILLERS!’ Director William Dieterle’s 1935 romantic crime drama stars Paul Muni as Dr Lee Cardwell, an American small-town doctor-surgeon who operates to remove bullets from Red Bastian (Barton […]
The actor Sean Penn writes and directs this powerful 1991 film that tells the Seventies-set tale of two brothers, one the surprisingly nice, ordinary, well-adjusted highway patrolman Joe Roberts (David Morse), the other the handsome […]
Director Frank Darabont’s honourable 2001 drama stars Jim Carrey as Peter Appleton, an ambitious movie screenwriter in early 1950s America, who falls victim to the communist witch-hunts. He crashes his car, loses his memory and […]
Director Max Mayer’s appealing 2013 bitter-sweet comedy drama stars Sarah Bolger as smart 16-year-old tomboy Lucy Diamond (as in the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds) who comes of age in a small town with her […]