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The 1964 follow-up movie Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte is less iconic but perhaps an even smarter mystery horror thriller film, with Bette Davis returning triumphantly from What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Director Robert Aldrich’s […]
Director Henry Hathaway’s 1953 movie Niagara is a brilliantly sexy, steamy and entertaining noirish crime thriller. After years in bit parts, the sexy young Marilyn Monroe rockets at last to stardom as Rose Loomis, the […]
Director Jerry Jameson’s 1977 third Airport movie is a lumbering disaster movie epic that is completely preposterous and often unintentionally funny. But it is still fairly exciting and somewhat enjoyable. It sends a luxury 747 airliner […]
‘Mystery, murder and passion from the master of suspense’. Yes, the 1949 British historical thriller Under Capricorn is business as usual from Alfred Hitchcock, but with a little bit of a twist. It is not […]
Taut, tense and bristling with pent-up sexual frisson, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1943 dark little gem is one of his cleverest, most inspired movies. Joseph Cotten enjoys one of his finest roles as the smooth and sophisticated, […]
‘In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, and they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherhood and 500 years of democracy […]
Michael Cimino’s infamous 1980 Western film Heaven’s Gate is the most exciting, most spectacular of visual movies. Christopher Walken’s a knockout. Kris Kristofferson and Isabelle Huppert are excellent. Directly supervised by director Michael Cimino, the 2013 […]