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Humphrey Bogart stars as amoral black marketeer Harry Smith in the tense and flavourful 1951 film noir Sirocco, a Casablanca-style movie about intrigue and romance in 1920s Syria. Director Curtis Bernhardt’s 1951 film noir movie […]
Writer-director Peter Bogdanovich’s controversial 1968 film début hit hard in its day and still packs a punch, remaining a seriously relevant thriller. It promised a great future for Bogdanovich, which, for a while in the […]
Packed with great, salty dialogue, director Ken Loach’s 2009 movie tells an enjoyable tall tale of two Erics – one of them the ex-soccer genius Eric Cantona, the other a sad old British postman (Steve […]
Director J Lee Thompson’s taut, carefully scripted, well-acted 1959 thriller Tiger Bay stars 12-year-old Hayley Mills, who is superb in her film début as Gillie, a Cardiff dockland tomboy waif who observes Polish merchant marine Korchinsky […]
Natalie Portman stars as Jane Hammond, who desperately asks her ex-lover Dan Frost (Joel Edgerton) for help in order to save her outlaw husband Bill ‘Ham’ (Noah Emmerich) from an evil gang out to kill him. But Frost is eaten up […]
Director Robert Siodmak’s 1952 classic stars a wonderfully agile Burt Lancaster as Captain Vallo, aka The Crimson Pirate, and his former circus acrobat partner Nick Cravat as Ojo. Lancaster and Cravat are awash in acrobatic […]
Director Stephen Frears’s excellent 1971 British neo-noir retro-gangster yarn provides a heaven-sent acting opportunity for Albert Finney as Eddie Ginley, a music-hall comedian/ nightclub bingo caller who really wants to be Dashiell Hammett’s legendary fictional […]