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Hold onto your seat,
here's some gripping movies you may have
missed.
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Review
After The Long Kiss Goodnight was turned into a huge action disaster he disappeared from Hollywood. He re-emerged almost ten years later with Kiss Kiss,Bang Bang his directorial debut.
- The Way Of The Gun
The Way of the Gun is an overlooked and yet spectacular modern western.
- The Salton Sea
Playing like a cross between Memento and Spun, The Salton Sea starts with Val Kilmer’s character Tom sitting in his burning apartment playing the trumpet.
- Sleuth
If there's one thing that Sleuth shows you is possible, it's that movies don't need dozens of special effects or huge budgets.
- The Game
The Game stars Michael Douglas and is directed by David Fincher. A true overlooked classic.
- Wargames
Classic suspense flick from the period when Space Invaders ruled the world.
- The Insider
The Insider - Michael Mann's dramatic movie features superb turns from Russell Crowe and the ever reliable Al Pacino
- Sexy Beast
Sexy Beast could have been a routine gangster flick in the tired style of Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrells, is lifted into the realms of classic by the performances of the cast and Jonathan Glazer's eye-catching direction.
- Three Kings
An electrifying cocktail of war movie, black comedy and action thriller, Three Kings couldn't be anymore relevant in today's climate. Watching this movie after news footage of American soldiers in Iraq it seems that writer/director David O. Russell's movie was eerily prophetic.
- Straw Dogs
Straw Dogs tells the tale of David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) and his English wife Amy (Susan George) as they move to a cornish village seeking the quiet life. Typically to cornish villages, they are really a seething mass of hatred and violence and its not long before Sumner's manhood is tested in a battle with the vicious locals.
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