The 2021 American real-life crime thriller film Silk Road, written and directed by Tiller Russell, is very flawed but it certainly has its moments and its plus points, and it is in the interesting category. […]
H E Bates’s The Darling Buds of May go USA with the fairly lively and appealing 1959 MGM comedy film The Mating Game. Paul Douglas scores as crusty Pop Larkin and Debbie Reynolds twinkles prettily […]
Director René Clément’s 1947 French film Les Maudits [The Damned] is an impressive, well-made and exciting thriller, set at the end of World War Two in 1945, as Germany is losing the war, about a […]
Director Joseph Kane’s 1955 Western film The Maverick Queen is filmed in Naturama widescreen and Trucolor, and stars Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Scott Brady, Mary Murphy, Wallace Ford, Jim Davis, Howard Petrie and Emil Meyer. […]
Writer-director George A Romero takes time off from his zombie pictures to direct the 1981 personal drama film Knightriders, a modern-day knights in armour adventure about a travelling renaissance fair troupe, in which motorbikes replace […]
Directors Robert Montgomery’s 1947 Universal Studios black and white film noir crime film Ride the Pink Horse is based on the 1946 novel by Dorothy B Hughes, and stars Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King, […]
Writer-director Charles Burnett’s 1990 film To Sleep with Anger is a beautifully realised domestic drama centring on Southerner Harry (Danny Glover)’s disruptive arrival in the peaceful house of a South Central Los Angeles African-American family. To […]