This mystery thriller set in the Australian outback revolves around a ferocious 500-kilogram feral boar – or razorback. It’s essentially Jaws with a pig . . .…
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“Herbert West has a very good head on his shoulders . . . and another one in a dish on his desk.” Director Stuart Gordon…
In Britain during World War II, thousands of children are evacuated by their families to the safety of remote villages. In a small Suffolk coastal town,…
While many of Hollywood’s tales about heroism during the Second World War were tainted by smug patriotism and unwelcome sentiment, postwar British cinema tended to…
Saturday Night Live comedian Albert Brooks makes his directorial debut, playing himself as a narcissistic filmmaker who somehow persuades a Hollywood producer and a Boulder,…
In Houston, Texas, recent college graduate and aspiring videographer Lelaina Pierce (Winona Ryder) starts filming a raw camcorder documentary about the lives and struggles of…
James Stewart stars as “Jeff” Jeffries, a news photographer with a broken leg who is confined to a wheelchair in his Greenwich Village apartment during…
A 20-year-old US Marine named “Rebel” (Matt Dillon) is on R&R leave in Sydney in 1942, recuperating from wounds suffered in battle in Guadalcanal. He…
Tucker (Edward Platt, who would become famous as “Chief” from Get Smart) operates a Hollywood beatnik coffee house as a cover-up for his robbery activities.…
James Dean lit-up the screen as mixed-up kid and bad boy, Jim Stark. Jim’s real problem is that he despises his father for his weakness and…
During the day, Tony (Tony Hancock in his first big movie) is trapped in the drudgery of a nine-to-five office job at United International Transatlantic…
The large Kelly family run a Gaudi-esque pub-cum-video rental business on Reckless Island. The Kelly Gang – which only consists of Ned (a descendant of…
“If I can get away with that, I can get away with anything” Michael “Mick” Marler (Nicol Williamson) is a successful and ruthless businessman working…
Henry Fleming (America’s most decorated real-life World War II hero, Audie Murphy) – referred to as “The Youth” – is a young Union recruit anxious…
This Universal picture paid tribute to a hitherto unsung bunch of heroes of World War II. It is August 1944, and Patton’s Third Army has…
After a quick rundown of politics in the film’s then-near-future world (Mexico has fallen to the Commies etc), director John Milius cuts straight to the…
Arnold Schwarzenegger is a big, dopey Soviet cop who treks from Moscow to Chicago to round up a Russian drug dealer. It’s basically 48 Hours (1982) with…
A hapless drifter (Nicolas Cage, this time in a non-comic variation on his innocent dupe persona) turns up in a small town with nothing but…
Red Sky at Morning is a sprawling account of a young boy growing up during World War II and learning the lessons of prejudice. Young Joshua…
The Japanese ambassador (Tetsu Nakamura) is travelling through the American west by train on his way to see President Grant in Washington DC when bandits…