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London writer and director John Michael McDonagh’s welcome and tastily edgy but slightly off-kilter and struggling 2016 black comedy thriller re-tells the very familiar tale of two corrupt cops in New Mexico who enjoy blackmailing and […]
Warner Bros’ hugely atmospheric and entertaining 1944 classic film noir mystery crime thriller film The Mask of Dimitrios again teams the era’s most iconic star character actors Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Director Jean Negulesco’s […]
Director Michael Anderson’s tantalising and engrossing 1961 British movie provides Gary Cooper with his final film role. It is an enjoyably convoluted, far-fetched thriller, written by Joseph Stefano, the author of Psycho, adapting Max Ehrlich’s […]
Director Michael Lehmann’s 1991 spoof adventure caper is game for a laugh but alas it is all too erratic and unfocused to provide the big guffaws and chortles you’d expect. Catch the Hawk, they advertised, […]
Producer-director Otto Preminger’s superb 1962 political thriller boasts a wonderful array of old Sixties star character actors doing their unique and eccentric things. Despite all the valiant efforts of Henry Fonda as Robert Leffingwell, Walter Pidgeon […]
‘When he hits London…blondes…bullets…and blackmail…set him up FOR THE KILL!!’ Director Seymour Friedman’s 1953 crime mystery thriller for Hammer Films (released in the US as The Saint’s Girl Friday) is a very watchable British stab at reviving […]
The 1960 Anglo-French horror movie The Hands of Orlac is an intriguing third film of the famous Maurice Renard novel. Co-writer/director Edmond T Gréville’s 1960 Anglo-French horror movie The Hands of Orlac is an intriguing […]