 | Verdict (1982) [Read More ...]
Description: In this 1982 courtroom drama written by David Mamet and directed by Sidney Lumet, Paul Newman found the perfect role for a transitional period of his stellar career. As alcoholic Boston lawyer Frank Galvin, Newman shook off his screen persona as a handsome, blue-eyed hunk to port... |
 | Apocalypse Now [Read More ...]
Description: In the tradition of such obsessively driven directors as Erich von Stroheim and Werner Herzog, Francis Ford Coppola approached the production of Apocalypse Now as if it were his own epic mission into the heart of darkness. On location in the storm-ravaged Philippines, he quite li... |
 | North by Northwest - Special Edition [Read More ...]
Description: A strong candidate for the most sheerly entertaining and enjoyable movie ever made by a Hollywood studio (with Citizen Kane, Only Angels Have Wings and Trouble in Paradise running neck and neck). Positioned between the much heavier and more profoundly disturbing Vertigo (1958) an... |
 | Boys From Brazil [Read More ...]
Description: Gregory Peck hams it up big time in this 1978 thriller based on Ira Levin's bestselling novel. Peck plays an old German Nazi behind a mysterious series of murders, the investigation of which leads to an astonishing plot to create the Fourth Reich. Laurence Olivier is equally outr... |
 | Bloodline [Read More ...]
Review: Hepburn saves this turgid expoitation thriller:BLOODLINE, based on the novel by Sidney Sheldon, is a good movie if only to see the radiant Audrey Hepburn in one of her final acting roles. She plays Elizabeth Roffe, who inherits her father's pharmaceutical empire following his my... |
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Description: A strong candidate for the most sheerly entertaining and enjoyable movie ever made by a Hollywood studio (with Citizen Kane, Only Angels Have Wings and Trouble in Paradise running neck and neck). Positioned between the much heavier and more profoundly disturbing Vertigo (1958) an... |
 | Pandora & the Flying Dutchman [Read More ...]
Description: There are few films that can be acclaimed as truly mad, but Pandora and the Flying Dutchman stands rather wonderfully in this category. Its combination of lust and erudition is inspired by mythology but seems peopled by characters from some hybrid novel co-authored by Somerset Ma... |
 | Salem's Lot [Read More ...]
Description: A New England village is plagued by vampirism in this blood-curdling shocker based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King, directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist) and starring David Soul, James Mason, Bonnie Bedelia, Lew Ayres and Ed Flanders. Year: 1979 Starring: David Soul, J... |
 | Mackintosh Man [Read More ...]
Espionage thriller about an escaped convict on the run across exotic European borders. |
 | The Assisi Underground [Read More ...]
Heart Warming Story:Entertaining Sad Joyous when you forget the reality of the truth
of the story you can enjoy the movie it is long but worth watching I am waiting for it to come out on DVD |
 | 5 Fingers [Read More ...]
Review: JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ, OPUS 11:***** 1952. Co-written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Based on L.C. Moyzisch's Operation Cicero, the film earned two nominations for the Oscars, one Golden Globe (screenplay) and the 1953 Edgar Allan Poe award. A servant at the British embassy... |
 | Caught (1949) [Read More ...]
Description: Max Ophüls's dark "Cinderella" melodrama belongs as much to the murky world of film noir as to the polished European dramas of high-society power games. Barbara Bel Geddes is a carhop who puts her hopes in a charm-school education and a modeling gig. When cold, demanding industr... |
 | The Verdict [Read More ...]
Description: In this 1982 courtroom drama written by David Mamet and directed by Sidney Lumet, Paul Newman found the perfect role for a transitional period of his stellar career. As alcoholic Boston lawyer Frank Galvin, Newman shook off his screen persona as a handsome, blue-eyed hunk to port... |
 | Lolita (1962) [Read More ...]
Description: When director Stanley Kubrick released his film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel about a hopelessly pathetic middle-aged professor's sexual obsession with his 12-year-old stepdaughter, the ads read, "How did they ever make a film of Lolita?" The answer is "the... |
 | North By Northwest [Read More ...]
Description: A strong candidate for the most sheerly entertaining and enjoyable movie ever made by a Hollywood studio (with Citizen Kane, Only Angels Have Wings and Trouble in Paradise running neck and neck). Positioned between the much heavier and more profoundly disturbing Vertigo (1958) an... |
 | I Love Trouble [Read More ...]
Description: The writer-producer-director team of Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers (Father of the Bride) can't lift this sugary ode to Howard Hawks's His Girl Friday to a believable--let alone enjoyable--plateau. Neither, unfortunately, can its two great and perfectly cast leads, Nick Nolte and... |
 | 2 Days in the Valley [Read More ...]
Description: Overlooked in theaters but gaining a modest cult following in video release, writer-director John Herzfeld's underrated 2 Days in the Valley has a lot going for it, not the least being a variety of interesting characters played by a superb ensemble cast. The complex plot centers ... |
 | Cheap Detective [Read More ...]
Description: Most fans of everything-but-the-kitchen-sink comedies like The Naked Gun and Hot Shots probably think the genre started with Airplane!, but Neil Simon's The Cheap Detective came two years earlier. It's a camp parody of Humphrey Bogart's 1940s detective flicks (particularly The Ma... |
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 | Salem's Lot [Read More ...]
Description: A New England village is plagued by vampirism in this blood-curdling shocker based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King, directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist) and starring David Soul, James Mason, Bonnie Bedelia, Lew Ayres and Ed Flanders. Year: 1979 Starring: David Soul, J... |
