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Bruce Willis stars in co-writer/ director Rowdy Herrington’s dreary, by-the-numbers 1993 action thriller as a Pittsburg homicide detective called Tom Hardy who is busted down to river rescue cop after his father is killed in the […]
This excellent, highly sympathetic, thriller-cum-character study comedy comes from co-writer/ director Henri-Georges Clouzot, the maker of Les Diaboliques, making a strong impression with his first solo film as director. Pierre Fresnay stars as Le Commissaire […]
Denzel Washington is in his element as homicide detective John Hobbes, who witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese (Elias Koteas). But soon the killings start again in Reese’s style… Director Gregory Hoblit’s excellent […]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s chilly and attractively unusual 1969 low budget German black-and-white film is his first feature, valuable as an interesting apprentice work of this important director. It tells a dour and doomy noir-style gangster story, as seen through […]
Eleanor Bonneville: ‘It’s Jigsaw.’ Logan Nelson: ‘Jigsaw’s dead.’ Eleanor Bonneville: ‘Is he?’ The Spierig Brothers’ tediously gruesome and grisly reboot of the Saw franchise is as disgusting and revolting as it is stale and pointless. […]
Director Robert Day’s intriguing 1958 British horror thriller Grip of the Strangler [The Haunted Strangler] stars Boris Karloff as James Rankin, a mystery writer who investigates the case of a serial killer murderer hanged two […]
Rex Harrison stars as Arthur Groome, the unfaithful Richmond, London, husband, charged with murdering his showgirl plaything (Patricia Wayne), in directors Anthony Bushell and Reginald Beck’s ordinary, unconvincing 1951 British mystery and suspense crime thriller […]