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In her first star role, Jayne Mansfield plays Gladden, sidekick of crook Nat Harbin (Dan Duryea), who sets out to steal the emerald necklace of a Philadelphia spiritualist. The moody 1957 film noir crime thriller […]
Writer-director Bo Widerberg’s gorgeously pretty 1967 lovers-on-the-run romance Elvira Madigan, set in 19th-century Sweden, was a huge art house cinema hit in the Sixties. Widerberg’s screenplay is based on a real-life 19th century romantic story […]
This sweet and satisfying, truthful and truly moving 2015 Finnish Estonian drama plays like a sword-based, serious-minded, real-life version of Dead Poets Society or School of Rock. Director’s Klaus Härö’s film is incredibly good, never taking a false […]
Director John G Avildsen’s pleasantly laid-back 1975 comedy stars Burt Reynolds as sweet-talking, happy-go-lucky US Southern Fifties trickster W W Bright. W W is an old rogue of a crook who makes his living robbing […]
Writer-director Jamie M Dagg makes his feature debut with this strong, involving, credible thriller, a lesson in how to craft tension and dynamism in film-making. Rossif Sutherland is excellent as the American volunteer doctor hero who witnesses a rape […]
Cornel Wilde’s low-budget 1955 black and white film noir thriller Storm Fear is mean and moody. The screenplay is by double Oscar-winning script-writer Horton Foote. Cornel Wilde, Lee Grant and Steven Hill star in the low-budget […]
Writer-director Jean-Luc Godard’s deservedly celebrated 1965 French classic borrows its plot from the American thriller genre. Jean-Paul Belmondo, from Godard’s Breathless (À bout de souffle), again stars for the French New Wave maestro as Ferdinand Griffon, ‘Pierrot’ […]