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Co-writer/ director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s intriguing and stylish looking 1981 German film surprisingly overflows with sentiment and self-importance, and lacks the satiric bite and critical awareness of his best work. However, in other ways it […]
Director Edward Dmytryk’s edgy, gripping 1945 RKO film noir thriller finds an ideal star in Dick Powell, who plays a former Canadian airman called Laurence Gerard, who returns to France and then goes to Buenos […]
Italy’s Lake Como vies with Vanessa Redgrave as the formidable main attraction of director John Irvin’s elegantly made, charming 1995 film version of a good old-fashioned tale from an H E Bates novella. In the […]
Director Fritz Lang’s 1946 release stars Gary Cooper as mild-mannered science professor called Alvah Jesper who becomes an agent for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the World War Two forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency. […]
In 1956, British TV viewers thrilled to a serial called The Trollenberg Terror, in which a remote mountain resort in Switzerland is invaded by horrible alien creatures who enjoy decapitating humans. In 1956, British TV […]
Roger Corman’s 1990 reworking of the Frankenstein legend with a sci-fi spin is an intriguing horror movie, based on Brian W Aldiss’s novel, with good performances from John Hurt, Raul Julia and Bridget Fonda. Director/co-writer […]
Director Peter R Hunt’s 1969 007 movie On Her Majesty’s Secret Service finds Sean Connery temporarily replaced as James Bond with an entirely adequate George Lazenby. The former male model got only one shot at […]