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Writer-director Ernest Thompson’s 1988 drama 1969 is a sincere and genial period piece, with appealing performances from the young Kiefer Sutherland and Robert Downey Jr as intelligent hippy Scott and his sensual best mate Ralph, […]
Director Roger Spottiswoode’s 1990 film Air America stars Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr as maverick veteran pilot Gene Ryack (Gibson) and cheeky young upstart Billy Covington (Downey Jr), who work together as renegade aviators […]
Director Julie Taymor’s glorious 2007 musical romantic drama film Across the Universe incorporates 33 compositions originally written by members of the Beatles, and stars Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, T V Carpio Dana […]
Director Joseph Zito’s 1984 Missing in Action stars Chuck Norris, who chucks himself back into Asian action as Vietnam vet Colonel James Braddock to find men missing in action. Norris is supposed to be an […]
Director Ted Kotcheff’s exciting, tough though not-too-violent 1983 action war thriller Uncommon Valor follows the exploits of obsessed US Marine retired Colonel Jason Rhodes (Gene Hackman) and his dirty half-dozen of crack vets trying to […]
Director Jack Haley Jr’s 1970 comedy drama Norwood is an inoffensive but uninspired vehicle for amiable singer Glen Campbell (reteamed with Kim Darby as their reward for appearing in producer Hal B Wallis’s 1969 True […]
Director Ted Post’s 1978 war drama Go Tell the Spartans stars Burt Lancaster as Major Asa Barker, a top US military adviser, who is worrying about Vietnam back in 1964, and he has to save […]