The interesting if improbable 1962 British black and white crime thriller film Playback stars Margit Saad, Barry Foster and Nigel Green. It is part of the epic 48-film Edgar Wallace Mystery film series. Director Quentin […]
The shaky but tense and well handled 1998 American action thriller film Desperate Measures stars Michael Keaton, Andy García, Marcia Gay Harden and Brian Cox, and is directed by Barbet Schroeder. Director Barbet Schroeder’s 1998 […]
The 1960 British B-movie noir crime film The Challenge [It Takes a Thief] is a routine thriller, though starring Jayne Mansfield as a ruthless gang leader tempting a businessman (Anthony Quayle) into taking part in […]
Two misfit late-teen best buddies (Xabiani Ponce de León as Carlos, José Antonio Toledano as Gera) find a bar/ nightclub where anything goes in Mexico City in the 80s and a good/ bad time is […]
‘He came from nowhere and killed a man he’d never seen!’ The 1961 Irish black and white mystery thriller film Johnny Nobody is directed by and stars Nigel Patrick, alongside Aldo Ray, Yvonne Mitchell, William […]
Outlaws Jack Lord, James Farentino and Don Galloway rob stages, try to evade the law, and fall for lovely ‘half dancer, half devil’ Melodie Johnson. ‘Half Dancer…Half Devil… She drove men to the wrong side […]
The interesting, attractively unconventional 1965 British B movie Edgar Wallace Mystery crime film Game for Three Losers stars Michael Gough, Mark Eden and Toby Robins. Director Gerry O’Hara’s interesting, attractively unconventional little 1965 British B […]