Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce
Directed by: Milos Forman (One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Man on the Moon)
Plot: Antonio Salieri, now confined to an asylum, tells the incredible story of the rise of wunderkind Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna.
But is it any good?
All I really knew about this film was that awful Falco single […]
Starring: Robert de Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Plot: Jake La Motta, a US middle-weight champ, watches his boxing career rise and fall again as his temper causes his life to crumble around him.
But is it any good?
I put off seeing Raging Bull for a long time. I’d heard people rave about it […]
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Louise Fletcher
Directed by: Milos Forman
Plot: Upon arrival at a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients together to take on the oppressive Nurse Ratched, a woman more a dictator than a nurse.
But is it any good?
It’s difficult to write anything about Cuckoo’s Nest without spoiling the plot, so I’ll […]
Starring: Roberto Benigni, Nicholetta Braschi, Giustino Durano
Directed by: Roberto Benigni
Plot: An Italian man uses humour to win over the love of his life, then a few years later that humour comes in handy again as he must steer his young son through the horror of a Nazi death camp.
But is it any good?
Roberto Benigni must […]
Starring: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, James Garner, Charles Bronson
Directed by: John Sturges
Plot: A German POW camp houses some of the war’s most skilled escape artists. Not prone to twiddling their thumbs, several hundred hatch a plot to break free.
But is it any good?
I was watching the opening credits of The Great Escape when it hit […]
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Starring: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
Directed by: Orson Welles
Plot: A Mexican narcotics expert and his young American wife put their honeymoon on hold in an American border town when they become embroiled in a frame-up.
But is it any good?
I am the kind of person who will physically tie someone down and make them watch […]
