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Director Sidney Gilliat’s 1957 British-US black and white film noir crime thriller Fortune Is a Woman [She Played with Fire] is a promising, dark-toned mystery about an attempted insurance fraud that goes badly wrong. Jack […]
Director Percy Adlon’s 1989 English-language German comedy film Rosalie Goes Shopping stars Marianne Sägebrecht, Brad Davis and Judge Reinhold. Rosalie is a hefty German housewife, played by Marianne Sägebrecht, collaborating for the third time with […]
Writer-producer-director Charles Martin’s 1956 film Death of a Scoundrel stars George Sanders as scoundrel Euro-conman Clementi Sabourin (‘our plan is to buy companies that are in financial trouble and then build them up’), who steps […]
The 1973 comedy drama Property Is No Longer a Theft [La proprietà non è più un furto] is the last film in Italian director Elio Petri’s essential Trilogy of Neurosis, starting with Investigation of a […]
Director Renny Harlin’s 1993 adventure thriller Cliffhanger is enjoyably preposterous action entertainment, with Sylvester Stallone as Gabe Walker, a mountain rescuer called in when a plane full of bad guys who have stolen cash from […]
‘He’s the BIGGEST CHISELER since MICHAELANGELO!’ Director Michael Curtiz’s 1934 Warner Bros movie has the inestimable distinction of teaming the unforgettable young James Cagney and Bette Davis, aged just 25. It is their first pairing […]
Director Barry Sonnenfeld’s 1991 movie is a witty, often hilarious Gothic black comedy based on the Sixties TV show, in turn based on the macabre cartoons by Charles Addams, with ideal casting in Anjelica Huston, […]