Star power. Esther Williams said she disliked MGM’s original ‘cotton sleeveless T-shirt’ swimsuits and designed her own swimsuit for Skirts Ahoy! (1952) and then persuaded the director of the US Navy to make it their […]
Director Gilles Grangier’s 1963 French-Italian crime film Maigret voit rouge [Maigret Sees Red] stars Jean Gabin, Françoise Fabian and Roland Armontel. Maybe it is strictly genre policier / gangster material, perhaps it is the least […]
‘The day of judgement has arrived. You will die by the end of the Ash Wednesday service.’ This anonymous message sent to his old friend the Countess (Valentine Tessier) sees Inspector Maigret (Jean Gabin) take […]
Director Henri Decoin’s 1955 French gangster film Razzia sur la chnouf (French for Raid on the Dope) stars Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, Magali Noël and Lila Kedrova. The screenplay, based on a novel by Auguste […]
The beautiful, heart-warming 2021 Canadian gay romantic coming of age film Wildhood stars Phillip Lewitski as teenager Link, who meets the two-spirit powwow dancer Pasmay when he takes his younger half-brother on a journey to […]
Producer/ / director William Marshall’s fairly sprightly 1951 Republic Pictures black and white American adventure film Adventures of Captain Fabian stars Errol Flynn, Micheline Presle, Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead. The film is based on […]
The Canadian-made 1980 horror-thriller Phobia – one of great director John Huston’s few misfires – is about a psychiatrist (Paul Michael Glaser) whose phobia-struck test subjects are being systematically bumped off. Dr Peter Ross (Glaser) […]