Rollerball (1975) – Director: Norman Jewison – 4/10 (passable/mediocre)It requires quite a bit of patience to disentangle the jejune social commentary of Rollerball from the obstreperous reality of the game, the depiction of which dwarfs the rest of the storyline; the gratuitously bloated plot protracts film’s spuriously profound message ad […]
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This 1980 war film directed by John Irvin (Raw Deal, Hamburger Hill) and photographed by Jack Cardiff (Dark of the Sun) was based on a novel by Frederick Forsyth. The story follows a group of international mercenaries who are hired to remove an African president in the fictional country of […]