Kinji Fukasaku must be considered elite among directors of gangster films. His five films for Battles Without Honor and Humanity, three installments of New Battles Without Honor and Humanity and numerous other movies get deep into the Yakuza culture. He charted the history of how organized crime rose up in post-World War II Japan from … Read more
For the movie adaptations of JK Rowling’s beloved Harry Potter novels, the character of Peeves the Poltergeist was to be played by the late, great Rik Mayall. The character was eventually cut from the first movie by director Chris Columbus, so did not appear in any subsequent films either. For
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