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Pork Chop Hill (1959): Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn…; Given a gritty believability by Dir. Milestone ('All Quiet on the Western Front'), this recounts the bloody, meaningless conquest of a lowly hill…
King of Kings (1961): Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Jeffrey Hunter, Hurd Hatfield, Robert Ryan…; Faithful, intelligent telling of the life of Christ, with Jeffrey Hunter in the robes of JC, benefits from a lesser–known cast. Orson Welles…
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962): Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight…; The South at its over–ripest, Tennessee Williams providing a repressive, smalltown setting for gigolo Paul Newman and faded movie–star…
Cincinnati Kid, The (1965): Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Tuesday Weld…; Memorable visit to the shady world of card–sharking in Depression–era America, with some excellent character acting from a great cast.
Man Who Fell to Earth, The (1976): Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark…; David Bowie plays a humanoid trapped on Earth during a quest for water. Genuinely original and imaginative article is stamped with Nic Roeg's…
Coma (1978): Dir. Michael Crichton
Feat. Genevieve Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley…; Numerous patients fall into a permanent coma, arousing the suspicions of maverick doctor Genevieve Bujold. Excellent thriller unfolds its queasy…
One Trick Pony (1980): Dir. Robert M Young
Feat. Paul Simon, Blair Brown, Rip Torn…; Interesting tale of rock–star, played by Paul Simon, undergoing personal crises.
Beastmaster, The (1982): Dir. Don Coscarelli
Feat. Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, Rip Torn; Hammy fantastical adventure centred on a mighty warrior on a revenge mission for the death of his family at the hands of a tyrannical priest. An 80's…
Flying High 2 (1982): Dir. Ken Finkleman
Feat. Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges…; Sequel to spoof film Flying High has the same cast, same plot, same hero – and pretty much the same jokes, but is not nearly as funny as it's…
Blue and the Gray, The (TV Mini-Series) (1982): Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Feat. Stacy Keach, Colleen Dewhurst, Lloyd Bridges…; Handsomely staged mini–series views the Civil War throught the eyes of a Southern war correspondent bearing witness to the war's key events.
City Heat (1984): Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander…; Effective self–parody from Eastwood and Reynolds as unlikable cops who team together to clean up gangster–ridden Kansas City in the…
Summer Rental (1985): Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. John Candy, Richard Crenna, Kerri Green…; A half–decent, though critically–panned, comic vehicle for John Candy in which the big man plays an overworked air–traffic…
Extreme Prejudice (1987): Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Maria Conchita Alonso…; Former childhood friends Boothe and Nolte find themselves on opposite sides of the law, and in love with the same woman in this gritty modern…
Cold Feet (1989): Dir. Robert Dornhelm
Feat. Keith Carradine, Sally Kirkland, Tom Waits…; A deranged assassin and a strange couple concoct a scheme to smuggle emeralds over the Mexican border. Bawdy, off–kilter Southern romp features…
Defending Your Life (1991): Dir. Albert Brooks
Feat. Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn…; Albert Brooks plays a high–flying executive who dies in a car accident, then is shifted off to 'Judgement City' – an otherworldly halfway…
Larry Sanders Show, The (TV Series) (1992): Feat. Garry Shandling, Rip Torn, Jeffrey Tambor…; A seminal comic work that preceded the likes of CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM and 30 ROCK, Garry Shandling's parody of the late–night talk show hit all…
Robocop 3 (1993): Dir. Fred Dekker
Feat. Robert Burke, Nancy Allen, Rip Torn…; Replacing Peter Weller in this final installment is Robert Burke.
Where the Rivers Flow North (1993): Dir. Jay Craven
Feat. Rip Torn, Michael J. Fox, Tantoo Cardinal…; Drama set in Vermont in 1927, based on the novel by Howard Frank Mosher about a couple who live remotely on a large amount of land, and refuse to…
Canadian Bacon (1995): Dir. Michael Moore
Feat. Alan Alda, John Candy, Rhea Perlman…; Great premise sees badly–rating US President Alan Alda declaring war on Canada. Its potential is never quite reached, with ROGER AND ME's…
How to Make an American Quilt (1996): Dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse
Feat. Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn…; Pleasurable, star–domed female–stitching movie has Winona Ryder sorting out her personal foibles with an ear for the mixed–fortuned…
Trial and Error (1997): Dir. Jonathan Lynn
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Michael Ritchie, Charlize Theron…; Big city lawyer Jeff Daniels and his actor buddy Michael Ritchie (from TV's Seinfeld) wind up having to swap identities to defend a case against a…
Insider, The (1999): Dir. Michael Mann
Feat. Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer…; A brooding masterpiece from dir. Mann (HEAT), who finally wrestles down a topic of sufficient weight to justify the peerless brilliance of his…
Wonder Boys (2000): Dir. Curtis Hanson
Feat. Michael Douglas, Robert Downey Jnr., Tobey Maguire…; A rumpled Michael Douglas plays an academic professor and successful author who's terminally unfinished second novel is symptomatic of midlife…
Freddy Got Fingered (2001): Dir. Tom Green
Feat. Tom Green, Rip Torn, Marisa Couglan; Tom Green, of MTV fame, directs, co–scripts and acts in this warped comedy about an aspiring animator who, at the age of 28, still lives in his…
Men in Black 2 (2002): Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Feat. Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Lara Flynn Boyle…; Recycling the characters, humour and premise of the first, this much–diluted sequel has Tommy Lee Jones lose his memory, giving Will Smith the…
Dodgeball (2004): Dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber
Feat. Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Christine Taylor…; A very broad satire for pals Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn, who take their popular brand of lampoonery into the sports arena and aim it strictly below…
Eulogy (2004): Dir. Michael Clancy
Feat. Ray Romano, Hank Azaria, Kelly Preston…; A Rhode Island family come together for the funeral of their grandpa, but their various dysfunctions and inappropriate traits prove a continual…
Forty Shades of Blue (2004): Dir. Ira Sachs
Feat. Rip Torn, Dina Korzun; Languid, deep focus Memphis melodrama, in which a Russian trophy wife (Korzun) oscillates between the false love of a wealthy music producer (Torn),…
Yours, Mine and Ours (2005): Dir. Raja Gosnell
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Rene Russo, Rip Torn; A 'bigger is better' knock–off of CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN (based on a 1968 comedy) in which two high school sweethearts (Quaid and Russo), both…
Marie Antoinette (2006): Dir. Sofia Coppola
Feat. Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis…; Girl wonder Sofia Coppola lets a fetching Kirsten Dunst eat cake (and then some) as a reluctant Queen in late–18th century Versailles, stifled…
Zoom - Academy for Superheroes (2006): Dir. Peter Hewitt
Feat. Tim Allen, Courteney Cox, Chevy Chase…; Tim Allen plays a has–been caped crusader, recruited in his twilight to train four gifted children with superpowers into a new…
Turn the River (2007): Dir. Chris Eigeman
Feat. Famke Janssen, Rip Torn, Lois Smith; Whit Stillman fixture Chris Eigeman directs this assured pool hall thriller, casting Famke Janssen as a hustler playing to win her son away from an…
August (2008): Dir. Austin Chick
Feat. Josh Hartnett, Naomie Harris, David Bowie…; Indie drama set in August 2001, where two brothers struggle to keep their New York–based internet company afloat in the middle of the…
Happy Tears (2009): Dir. Mitchell Lichtenstein
Feat. Parker Posey, Demi Moore, Rip Torn…; Two sisters return home to deal with their ailing father in this bittersweet and unsentimental drama, as much about familial secrets as it is about…

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