‘An Unforgettable Experience in Suspense!… As the Seconds Tick Off a Timetable for MURDER!’ The 1961 American black and white neo noir crime thriller Blast of Silence is written and directed by and stars Allen […]
Director Lindsay Shonteff’s exceptionally awful and amusingly inept 1967 British spy film The Million Eyes of Sumuru stars Frankie Avalon, George Nader, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Klaus Kinski and Shirley Eaton, and is produced by Harry Alan […]
Director Luis Buñuel’s powerful and darkly surreal 1959 black and white Mexican satirical drama Nazarín stars Francisco Rabal as Catholic priest Father Nazario, who is despised when he wanders among the poor in the footsteps […]
A biographer suggested that Orson Welles starred in Necromancy (1972) merely for the money. Do you think? Director Bert I Gordon’s 1972 horror movie Necromancy [NEC’RO•MAN’CY] stars Orson Welles in a daft, low-budget occult thriller, […]
Director Mario Van Peebles’s 1991 American independent film New Jack City stars the young and charismatic Wesley Snipes, who gives an impressive tough guy role performance as the arrogant, smart Nino Brown, a stereotypical New […]
Alain Resnais meets Alan Ayckbourn for the 1993 French comedy film Smoking. For the 1993 French comedy film Smoking / No Smoking, director Alain Resnais adapts Alan Ayckbourn’s play Intimate Exchanges (a series of eight […]
The 1993 French comedy film No Smoking is part two of Alain Resnais’s monumental adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn’s play cycle Intimate Exchanges (after Smoking). There are three stories but it focuses mainly on the relationship […]