Time for Sylvester Stallone to avert his gaze... Red Line 7000 (1965) This crash-fest-cum-soap opera is conspicuously absent from many books on director Howard Hawks, and with good reason. Starring…

Rush (2013) See past the fact that the plot is mostly bunkum, and some of the CGI is a bit shonky, and there’s much to like. Thor, sorry, Chris Hemsworth…

He was a big-picture man with visions of grandeur, willing to risk his hard-won credibility as a director and his studio’s money to create the greatest motor racing movie of…

In life, it was all too tricky to distinguish between the actual and the apocryphal. Mickey Thompson was manifestly a fame-chasing self-publicist, an egoist and a glory hound. He was…

Were someone to achieve something similar today, their accomplishment would likely be obscured by a blizzard of hype. But it was different then. Taken out of context, Eric Thompson’s World…