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Director Justus Addiss’s 1958 The Cry Baby Killer stars Jack Nicholson, who makes his promising début as a juvenile delinquent at the age of 21, in this Roger Corman-produced quick flick, advertised as ‘YESTERDAY a […]
Director Peter Collinson’s well-cast but unambitious crime melodrama 1977 Tomorrow Never Comes is an unofficially reworked variant on the 1947 American thriller The Long Night, itself a remake of the 1939 Jean Gabin French classic […]
Using the original screenplay by Jacques Viot as a basis, director Anatole Litvak remakes the 1939 Jean Gabin French classic Le Jour se Lève [Daybreak] to much lesser effect in his 1947 RKO black […]
The intelligent and gripping 1988 romantic crime thriller Tequila Sunrise is written and directed by Robert Towne (who scripted Chinatown). It boasts a good Eighties cast, with three glossy and appealing stars: Mel Gibson as […]
Gustav Möller’s 2018 film The Guilty is a commendably tense and creepy Danish noir thriller, set in the single location of a police station’s emergency telephone call centre. Co-writer/ director Gustav Möller’s 2018 film The […]
Co-writer/ director Elio Petri’s admirable Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion [Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto] stars Gian Maria Volontè as a newly elevated police inspector in charge of murder […]
Whoopi Goldberg stars as unconventional Beverly Hills cop Rita Rizzoli, who goes undercover to break a drugs ring and keep cocaine off the streets, in director Tom Holland’s efficiently made, violent 1987 formula comedy thriller […]