Thunderball

The recent James Bond picture Quantum of Solace arrived to a chorus of jeers from many fans. These critics complained that the film lakced fun; that the filmmakers tried to imitate more modern action heroes instead of allowing Bond to be his usual ...

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Tomorrow Never Dies

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) is one of the few James Bond movies that little is heard about. Dr. No, Goldfinger and even Casino Royale have been talked about to death, but this one, featuring Pierce Brosnan as 007 and the great Jonathan Pryce as his ...

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Touch of Evil

The best film noirs have been the result of a harmonious connection between story and style. A movie can look as dark and shadowy as it pleases, but it's all for naught if it's lacking a thematic backbone. This is what places 1958's Tou...

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Train Robbers, The

John Wayne turns in another bigger-than-life persona while Ann Margret's sizzle consumes the screen in The Train Robbers (1972). This action/adventure/comedy classic, is a variation of a tale told many times before, but this telling is a deli...

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Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The

In the 1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, the adventure is built on the pursuit of all that glitters. Even before H. Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain set off in search of King Solomon's mines, tales were told of men who sought riches a...

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Trio

W. Somerset Maugham recently got a high-profile boost with the Edward Norton-starring adaptation of The Painted Veil. But this isn't the first time that the cinema has taken to the author's works, as a trilogy of anthology films based upon ...

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Under Capricorn

Under Capricorn (1949) doesn't require the leap of faith its reputation suggests. Headlined by Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten, it's a costume melodrama directed by the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. It was a notion that audiences b...

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Under the Yum Yum Tree

Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963), which stars Jack Lemmon as a sex-crazed landlord, shows just how zany this noted actor could be. Among the sex comedies of the early 1960s, a time when sex in films was tempered, Yum Yum Tree was far more about the co...

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Uninvited, The

Gail Russell & Ray Milland For as long as studios have been making horror movies, they've tried selling them to the skittish. Despite a rise in popularity, chillers are still viewed as cinematic black sheep, their themes of...

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Vanishing Point 1971

For some, a road is just a road. Asphalt or gravel, it leads you from A to B, nothing more. But check out any crummy car flick of the last few decades, and it will seem to say roads are metaphors for life, a series of endless paths you alone are re...

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