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Hard Times (1975) – Review

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Sometimes it’s weirdly comforting when things don’t change – take Walter Hill for example. Famous for gritty, minimalist thrillers where talk is cheap and the

Hudson Hawk (1991) – Review

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While it wouldn’t be entirely fair to credit Die Hard entirely for the superstardom of Bruce Willis (does Moonlighting mean nothing to anyone anymore?), watching

The Great Escape (1963) – Review

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You can hear it right now, can’t you? The very second you read that title, I’m willing to bet folding money that Elmer Bernstein’s transcendent

Midway (1976) – Review

January 4, 2023 greigzilla

When filmmakers opt to make a film that covers a large aspect of a war, they invariably find themselves faced with something of a Sophie’s

The Magnificent Seven (1960) – Review

December 30, 2022 greigzilla

Expertly panel beating the plot of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai into a shape that could comfortably sustain cowpokes instead of sword swingers, The Magnificent Seven

Monsters Inc. (2001) – Review

January 17, 2022 greigzilla

By 2001, animation house Pixar had already churned out two bona fide classics (Toy Story’s 1&2) and a high grossing second movie that seems forever

Young Guns II (1990) – Review

August 31, 2021 greigzilla

Back in 1988, a clutch of Hollywood’s most fanciable males were rounded up into a group and appeared in Young Guns, a scrappy, but surprisingly

Cross Of Iron (1977) – Review

July 27, 2021 greigzilla

What with lunatic/maverick filmmaker Sam Peckenpah’s proclivity for fashioning incredibly brutal adventures featuring unfeasibly grizzled men trying to find a sliver of decency in horrific