Patrice Chéreau’s controversial, heavy-weight 1983 French film The Wounded Man [l’Homme Blessé] stars Jean-Hugues Anglade and Vittorio Mezzogiorno in a kind of obsessive love story between a teenage boy and an older man involved in […]
The 2004 French psychological crime thriller film L’ennemi naturel [The Natural Enemy] is bleak, dark and disturbing. Jalil Lespert stars as a young French police inspector sent to a seaside small town to investigate the […]
Logan Lerman stars in the poignant and appealing 2012 cult film The Perks of Being a Wallflower as troubled, introverted 16-year-old freshman Charlie, observing life from the sidelines, until he connects with two misfit seniors […]
The British 1956 noir espionage thriller film Cloak without Dagger [Operation Conspiracy] is a feeble, clichéd B-movie spy drama with romance and bantering in the concoction. Philip Friend and Mary Mackenzie star. Director Joseph Sterling’s […]
A band of ex-jailbirds get together to play jazz and commit crimes in the daft but mildly diverting 1962 musical crime film Band of Thieves starring clarinettist Acker Bilk. Director Peter Bezencenet’s 1962 British musical […]
The very entertaining 1943 British musical film Variety Jubilee depicts life in a London music hall from 1892 to World War Two, and is of great archival and nostalgia interest thanks to the precious glimpses […]
Agatha Christie’s 1969 detective novel Hallowe’en Party is re-titled, reworked and transposed from England to Venice as the third of Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot films, the 2023 mystery crime drama A Haunting in Venice. Agatha […]
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