Day of the Triffids (1962) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
No matter how many times you watch it, it never improves, but the spectacular camp value increases. Heroic Keiron Moore! …
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Hostel (2005) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
A film that’s gotten an awfully bad rap, it’s actually rather less gratuitous than many said, and is in truth …
The Big Combo (1955) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
A Film Noir zenith, from dark horse director Joseph Gun Crazy Lewis. Brilliantly photographed, relentlessly tough, featuring Cornel Wilde as …
Hamlet (1996) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Ten years or so ago, on the first occasion I sat through this, I felt it was something of a …
The Light (L’Equipier, 2004) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Melancholy, atmospheric film set in Brittany in 1963, when a wounded veteran of the Algerian uprising (Grégori Derangère) takes a …
The Quiet (2005) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Interesting but weirdly low-key domestic thriller featuring rather good performances, but might have had more cred as a chilling portrait …
The Brighton Strangler (1945) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
The old art-imitates-life-imitates-art-imitates-life-imitates-who-the-hell-cares type of story is a pet-hate of mine. The idea of an actor who goes too far …
Control (2007) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Overlong, especially for such a morbid subject, and Anton Corbijn’s eye more than occasionally feels over-aestheticised and studied, compared to …
Out Of The Fog (1941) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Based on an Irwin Shaw play, it has that familiar refrain of Key Largo in comparing Nazi-type ideology with gangsterism, …
Blood Diamond (2006) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
As much as this was a pulpy Fred Forsyth style adventure I tolerated it. The pretensions to relevance and the …
