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Director John Huston’s absolutely brilliant 1985 black-comedy Mafia movie thriller, based on Richard Condon’s novel, stars Jack Nicholson as Charley Partanna, a hitman who works for the Prizzi crime syndicate family. Charley is soon up […]
Writer-director Mel Brooks’s inspired 1968 first film is a wonderfully tasteless look at the devilish machinations behind the staging of a Broadway flop. It’s still guaranteed to delight and offend in equal quantities. The Zero […]
Director Richard Fleischer’s 1968 follow-up to his real-life thriller Compulsion is a documentary-style thriller about the capture of a real-life 60s serial killer. It showcases a riveting tour-de-force performance by a heavily made-up, only semi-recognisable Tony Curtis […]
Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski’s 1997 farcical comedy is a total hoot, with a highly amusing and inventive screenplay by Alan Rifkin. Lee Evans and Nathan Lane are well cast as daft brothers […]
Written, directed by and starring Billy Crystal, this 1995 romantic comedy sees him as Mickey Gordon, a basketball referee who meets a French-speaking American (Debra Winger) in Paris, where he has arrived to bury his […]
Director Harold Becker’s sizzling 1989 thriller Sea of Love is arguably his finest movie, though City Hall (1996) comes a very near second. Al Pacino is on his best form as love-crazed cop Detective Frank Keller, […]
Director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s 1986 worldwide movie hit The Name of the Rose turns the Umberto Eco metaphysical bestselling novel into a thrilling, adult medieval mystery. It won the César for Best Foreign Film and BAFTAs […]