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William Friedkin’s 1977 box-office flop American remake of the 1953 French classic thriller The Wages of Fear is an extravagant and sometimes impressive movie. Roy Scheider makes a useful hero, but Sorcerer is not a […]
Jane Birkin stars in the controversial film Je t’aime moi non plus (1976) as the skinny waitress Johnny, who lives and works in a truck-stop, but longs for love. She falls head over heels for […]
Co-story-writer/producer/director Bob Rafelson’s greatly admired 1970 classic Five Easy Pieces was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture. It stars Jack Nicholson, who is stupendous as Robert Eroica Dupea, a middle-class musician drop-out who, along […]
A masterpiece of fear and tension, Steven Spielberg’s third TV film is so powerful that it won a cinema release in 1971 and gave him his break in the movies. It aired as a hit […]
Director John Carpenter’s 1986 cult classic Big Trouble in Little China stars Kurt Russell in one of his iconic roles as Jack Burton, a trucker who gets sucked into a ‘centuries-old mystical battle’ in San Francisco’s […]
Director Kevin Hooks’s 1998 movie stars Patrick Swayze, who goes for a modest comeback in a very basic, threadbare B-movie thriller about a down-on-his-luck ex-con trucker called Jack Crews. He takes a job driving a truck […]
Director Raoul Walsh’s robust and realistic 1940 classic stars George Raft and Humphrey Bogart as embattled long-haul truck driving brothers Joe and Paul Fabrini, shipping fruit from farms to the markets in Los Angeles. It’s […]