When I Grow Up (1951) is the only film directed by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Michael Kanin. Writer-director Michael Kanin’s 1951 drama When I Grow Up stars Bobby Driscoll, Robert Preston, Charley Grapewin, Martha Scott, Sherry Jackson, Johnny McGovern and Frances […]
The 1972 tacky and tawdry B-movie horror thriller film Sweet Kill [The Arousers] [A Kiss from Eddie] is written and directed by Oscar-winner Curtis Hanson in his directorial debut, is produced by Roger Corman, and […]
Director David Butler’s 1931 Fox Film Corporation black and white comedy A Connecticut Yankee is based on Mark Twain’s 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, and stars Will Rogers, Myrna Loy and […]
Writer-director Mark Reichert’s 1980 American neo-noir crime mystery thriller film Union City is a first-class 40s-style retro-film noir, a neat little style object, with Deborah Harry of Blondie fame on fine form as a femme fatale, Lillian, […]
The suspenseful 1950 film noir Union Station stars William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald and Nancy Olson. A villain (Lyle Bettger) abducts a blind teenage girl (Allene Roberts) for the ransom, but a tough police lieutenant (William […]
Director Louis Feuillade’s 1916 French film serial Judex silent film classic narrates the adventures of The Shadow/ Batman-like crusading pulp hero Judex, and stars French matinee idol René Cresté as Jacques de Tremeuse aka Judex […]
Director Jeff Kanew’s flop 1991 American action-comedy crime film V I Warshawski stars Kathleen Turner, who is promisingly cast as novelist Sara Paretsky’s hardboiled feminist Chicago private eye Victoria Iphigenia Warshawski. But thereafter everything goes wrong for […]