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Director Alan Parker’s marvellous 1984 film Birdy stars Nicolas Cage as Al Columbato, who tries whatever he can to help his best friend Birdy (Matthew Modine), now a speechless schizophrenic suffering from post-war trauma and […]
Director Martin Scorsese’s 1976 ultra-realistic crime/vigilante thriller is both incredibly bleak and searing. It’s dazzlingly made by a hot and hungry Scorsese and spectacularly acted by its star Robert De Niro in one of his most […]
Director Phillip Noyce’s 2002 thriller stars Oscar-nominated Michael Caine, who is back on top form in this classy and compelling version of Graham Greene’s distinguished novel. Caine plays Thomas Fowler, an ageing British reporter for […]
The all-time great 1978 war drama film The Deer Hunter is co-written and directed by Michael Cimino. Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage star thrillingly as Slavic-American steelworkers whose lives are upended after […]
Apocalypse Now – and Forever! Co-writer/ director Francis Ford Coppola’s incredibly ambitious, wildly extravagant ($31 million) epic brilliantly reworks Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness as an examination of the absurdities and madness of the […]
One man’s tenure as a butler at the White House, as the civil rights movement, Vietnam and other major events affect his life, family and American society, makes for a good, meaty subject. But Lee Daniels’s […]
‘I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be “Sir”. Do you […]