The enjoyable 2024 film The Courier [El Correo] is a super-slick real-life Spanish crime thriller starring Arón Piper as a young valet/ hustler who seizes his get-rich-quick chance to join a cartel’s money-laundering scheme. Director […]
The notable 1951 drama film The Well stars Richard Rober, Harry Morgan, Barry Kelley, and Maidie Norman. Still relevant, it tackles the thorny issues of racial tensions and group behaviour in the form of a […]
Val Guest’s amusing, if far-fetched 1955 British thriller film Break in the Circle stars Forrest Tucker as an adventurer hired by a German millionaire (Marius Goring) to help a Polish scientist escape to the West. […]
The bittersweet 2013 British-French drama film Le Week-End is witty, stylish and entertaining, with superb performances Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan as a couple on a second honeymoon in Paris. Director Roger Michell’s bittersweet 2013 […]
Gloria Swanson and Laurence Olivier star in the 1933 British romantic comedy film Perfect Understanding as a newly married couple who agree to a marriage based on not arguing. Director Cyril Gardner’s 1933 British romantic comedy […]
Bodgan Farcas stars in a compelling tour-de-force as deranged police detective Florin Iespas, obsessed with solving the case of two fatal hotel fires, in the intense, incisive Romanian thriller Unidentified [Neidentificat]. Director Bogdan George Apetr’s […]
The involving 1971 South African wildlife wartime TV film Mr Kingstreet’s War stars John Saxon, Tippi Hedren and Rossano Brazzi. Writer/ director Percival Rubens’s 1971 South African TV film Mr Kingstreet’s War stars John Saxon, […]