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Director Joel Schumacher’s 1993 Falling Down is an extremely worrying thriller using a sensitive issue for entertainment. But Michael Douglas reckons he gives his best-ever performance as the burnt-out All-American everyman, a middle-aged Los Angeles […]
The fourth in the franchise started by The Purge back in 2013 is a nasty, unpleasant and revolting exploiter peddling strong disturbing violence and a wrong-headed near-future alternate reality, where the rich folks in power in […]
Producer-director Burt Balaban’s amateurish independently made 1954 British black-and-white science fiction film about first contact with aliens stars a down-on-their-luck Patricia Neal and Helmut Dantine. Neal plays Susan North, an American woman who crashes her car […]
Director Carol Reed’s 1941 vintage film Kipps [The Remarkable Mr Kipps] stars an ideally cast Michael Redgrave, who does wonders with the role of H G Wells’s draper’s assistant and apprentice Mr Arthur Kipps. He […]
Director Jules Dassin’s 1947 film noir prison-break thriller Brute Force is admirably tough and exciting, quite brutal for its day. It has exactly the right star in Burt Lancaster as Westgate Penitentiary inmate Joe Collins, […]
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