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Director Frank Perry’s 1970 Diary of a Mad Housewife stars Richard Benjamin as the greedy, egotistical, abusive lawyer Jonathan Balser, who repels his put-upon housewife Tina (Carrie Snodgress), who has a fling with big-headed writer […]
Director Jacques Becker’s 1943 black and white film Goupi Mains Rouges [It Happened at the Inn] is an extremely effective, deservedly admired French black comedy about the murder of an old woman in a French […]
Director Richard C Sarafian’s 1970 British film Fragment of Fear is a stylish and impeccably photographed though impenetrable mystery thriller about an English, ex-drug-taking writer, Tim Brett (David Hemmings), who thinks he is going potty […]
Director Irvin Kershner’s 1970 movie Loving stars George Segal, who turns in a first-class performance as Brooks Wilson, a married but philandering New York artist, in this sharp, witty and beautifully crafted comedy drama, motoring […]
Journey to Shiloh was made by Universal Pictures, looking for Sixties youth appeal, but they threw it away as a support feature in May 1968. Yet, with its iconic actors, it retains its appeal, and […]
Marco Pauletti stars as mountain man Barnabo in co-writer/ director Mario Brenta’s extraordinary, atmospheric, poetic Italian neo-realist mountain movie that does require some patience and understanding, but it will reward it. It is remarkable as […]
Arthur Hill stars as concerned scientist Dr Stone, who sacrifices himself for humanity in director Robert Wise’s tense, suspenseful, intelligent and just plain excellent 1971 sci-fi adventure The Andromeda Strain, adapted by screen-writer Nelson Gidding from […]