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A Stranger works to redeem the inhabitants of a London boarding house, in Austrian director Berthold Viertel’s fascinating 1935 British drama film The Passing of the Third Floor Back, starring Conrad Veidt, Anna Lee, Rene […]
René Clément’s chilling 1970 French mystery thriller Rider on the Rain [Le Passager de la Pluie] is the film that turned Charles Bronson into a star in Europe. Director René Clément’s 1970 French-Italian mystery thriller […]
Co-writer / producer / director Paul Mazursky’s 1986 comedy Down and Out in Beverly Hills is a remake of Jean Renoir’s 1932 classic Boudu Sauvé des Eaux and is an unexpected success, mainly thanks to […]
Octavia Spencer stars in Ma (2019) as a lonely woman called Sue Ann, aka Ma of course, who befriends a group of typically dumb American film teenagers looking for a good time and lets them […]
Director Robert Wise’s 1977 fantasy horror thriller Audrey Rose is based on the novel by Frank DeFelitta and stars Anthony Hopkins, who gives a believable performance as Elliot Hoover, a man who is convinced that […]
Little-known director Thomas Carr’s well-crafted 1957 Western The Tall Stranger stars Joel McCrea as ex-Yankee officer Ned Bannon, who is shot half dead by rustlers, but is saved by an intrepid wagon train of former Confederate settlers on their […]
Director Hany Abu-Assad’s relentlessly old-fashioned mix of survival movie and romantic drama The Mountain Between Us limps along enjoyably enough, though without much conviction or credibility. It has some tense, exciting scenes, but it also […]