Virna Lisi and Alf Kjellin star as Eurocrooks Rosa Lucchesi and Eric Lauffnauer, who employ Mark Brittain (Frank Sinatra) to lead a band of treasure hunting conmen to reuse a recovered refloated old wartime German submarine to […]
Frank Sinatra directs himself for the first time in this quality 1965 World War Two war drama about a platoon of US Marines who crash-land on a tiny far-off island in the Pacific, where they […]
Director Sidney J Furie’s run-of-the-mill British 1967 Cold War spy thriller The Naked Runner, based on the novel by Francis Clifford, is often preposterous but thankfully livened up considerably with flashy Sixties visuals so at […]
Coralie Fargeat’s full-on feminist French thriller Revenge (2017) is stonkingly intense, exciting and brilliantly shot (by Robrecht Heyvaert), with an interesting, playfully post-modern take on the war between men and women. There is more flesh […]
Director Alan Metter’s unpleasing 1986 comedy is a shoddy, obvious and unfunny vehicle for an unappealing star in Rodney Dangerfield, who plays Thornton Melon, an uncouth middle-aged millionaire signing up as a college freshman to […]
Director Alfonso Arau’s delicious and delightful 1995 full-on romantic drama A Walk in the Clouds stars Keanu Reeves, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Giancarlo Giannini and Anthony Quinn. It tells a sweet story with charm to spare, is compellingly acted, and nicely directed […]
Thomas Jane stars as the doomed and tormented real-life Neal Cassady, living the beat life during the 1940s, in writer-director Stephen T Kay’s taut and compelling little 1997 biographical drama, based on Cassady’s own life […]
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