Director Charles Vidor’s 1939 black and white Columbia Pictures film Blind Alley is a trail-blazing psychoanalysis film-noir thriller, about murderously tough hood Hal Wilson (Chester Morris) busting loose from jail and hiding out with a […]
Director Rudolph Maté’s American 1948 extended flashback black and white psychological thriller The Dark Past is a suspenseful remake of the 1939 film Blind Alley, based on the 1935 play Blind Alley by James Warwick, with […]
The 2021 Anglo-American Marvel Comics superhero film Venom: Let There Be Carnage is the very unwelcome sequel to the 2018 Venom. It is nasty, British and short, and aggressively violent, making it no fun at […]
Swedish actor and musician Björn Andrésen attracted worldwide attention as Tadzio in Death in Venice (1971), receiving international headlines as ‘The Most Beautiful Boy in the World’. Writer-directors Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri’s 2021 fascinating […]
Director John Guillermin’s 1954 British comedy-drama film The Crowded Day stars Joan Rice, John Gregson, Freda Jackson, Patricia Marmont, Cyril Raymond, Josephine Griffin and Vera Day. A vintage ensemble cast, including several national treasures, illuminates […]
The generic but tolerable 1969 Technicolor 35 mm US Civil War paella Western film The Desperados stars Vince Edwards, Sylvia Syms and Jack Palance. Director Henry Levin’s generic but tolerable 1969 American Technicolor 35 mm […]
‘They all went where the heat was hottest!’ Meg Myles and Grayson Hall star in director Jerald Intrator’s atmospheric noir 1962 American black and white sexploitation film Satan in High Heels. Myles plays ruthless carnival […]