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Writer-producer-director Joseph Mankiewicz’s 1958 movie uses half of Graham Greene’s distinguished bestselling novel, and then turns it into a love triangle story and murder-thriller, with lots of dialogue, pro-American stance and a Communist-bashing ending tailored […]
Director Adrian Lyne’s eerie, eye-catching 1990 horror movie finds Tim Robbins climbing the ladder to stardom in a stalwart performance as the divorced, traumatised Vietnam vet, New York postal worker Jacob Singer, who is troubled by […]
Director Francis Coppola’s hardly seen 1987 movie Gardens of Stone was another setback to the careers of its star James Caan and director. It was mysteriously taken off during the first week of its London […]
Director Nancy Savoca’s 1991 comedy romantic drama stars River Phoenix, who gives a finely judged, tortured performance in this offbeat, bittersweet tale as the 18-year old young marine Eddie Birdlace, who dates a frumpy waitress called […]
Director Brian De Palma’s 1989 movie is one of his half-dozen masterworks. Indeed it is a flawed masterpiece, and will come as a serious surprise to those who know De Palma only for Carrie, Blow […]
This scary, in-your-face 2000 movie tells the tale of a group of American army recruits undergoing horrific infantry training, in a gruelling test of their physical and mental stamina, at Fort Polk, Louisiana – the […]
Producer-directors Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes’s 1995 action crime thriller is set in The Bronx in the late Sixties. Three African American Vietnam veterans, ignored and neglected by society, plan to steal withdrawn dollar bills […]