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This semi-regular column is written by an automotive sage and noted malcontent, known as The Mechanic.

Was New York City in its debt-saddled, under-patrolled, crime-capital days ever really this Stygian? The wish-fulfillment appeal of vigilantism certainly isn't the same in our current hyper-chaperoned ...

Some people just don't know when to quit. I admire people like Clint Eastwood, whose Dirty Harry character went out on top.

Airman Eric 'Digger' Dowling , an important figure in the break-out of Allied PoWs from Stalag Luft III in the Second World War, immortalised in the film The Great Escape , has died, aged 92.

The familiar Alistair MacLean strategy is put to work in a Wild West setting. The sense of exasperated mystification --- what the hell's happening here? -- is nicely set up in the briskly edited beginning, as ...

The Great Escape , the iTunes 99 Movie of the Week: When you hear members of the "Greatest Generation" say, "They don't make 'em like that anymore," this is the kind of movie they're talking about.

One of my all-time favorite movies is "The Magnificent Seven", John Sturges and William Roberts' apocraphal and marvelously pivotal 'western' which glorifies the willingness of men of strength to suffer that ...

A blackmail scheme in Raymond Chandler's territory -- unseemly hotels, friendly neighborhood tavern, all-night laundromat, bus depot, and brick-walled Beverly Hills mansion -- is of scant interest, although the ...

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A Movie A Day: Quint watches WW2 flick NEVER SO FEW Did I just see Sinatra pour a shot for a monkey?!? Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today's installment of A Movie A Day.

To survive, American westerns almost immediately became darker in theme and more cynical in outlook.

Bookmakers Ladbrokes has instructed staff not to fly with British Airways following an incident involving its chief executive's daughter who was on her way back from Barbados .

POW tale with a very roomy and airy feel to it, on the wide screen and in travelogue color, and staged with a sweeping eye for geometry.

"You think I am brave because I carry a gun; well, your fathers are much braver because they carry responsibility, for you, your brothers, your sisters, and your mothers.

Charles Bronson, reportedly Britain's most dangerous prisoner, is the subject of a new cinema film and has been advising the film-makers from his prison cell on how he should be characterised.

Honorable but tedious hack work, by J. Lee Thompson in service to Charles Bronson. via San Diego Reader

With most of our action movie icons, there are easily identifiable trademarks: John Wayne's pigeon-toed swagger and slow-rolling drawl; Humphrey Bogart's facial twitches and muted trombone growl; Clint Eastwood's narrow squints and freeze-dried rasp. Drop Gary Cooper's laconic fortitude, Robert Mitchum's sloe-eyed diffidence and Charles Bronson's brawny truculence into this discussion and you can summon waves of other examples.

Harrison Ford? Hmmm ... let's see ... what is it that jumps out in front of you when thinking of one of the biggest action stars of the last 30-something years? What would your garden-variety Vegas comic use as fodder for a Harrison Ford impression? Besides a bullwhip or a ray gun? Can't think of any, right? Neither can we. Read more

Firefighters appeared to be winning their battle on Tuesday against wildfires that destroyed more than 60 homes in this Brevard County community -- fires that authorities believe were intentionally set. via The Miami Herald

“Kid, kid, get back in the kitchen”

Charles Bronson offed my father. He hid a bomb inside a bottle of red wine, and when it exploded, he gave my old man everlasting life. via News Observer

Charles Bronson is one of those actors who most of us know, but might be hard-pressed to name more than a couple of his movies. via Capital News 9