Director Charles S Dutton’s 2004 drama Against the Ropes stars Meg Ryan, who battles to get her career off the ropes as a real-life go-getting promoter, Jackie Kallen, a Jewish woman from Detroit who storms […]
Director Charles Crichton’s 1948 intelligent, if downbeat espionage, sabotage and resistance thriller Against the Wind, set in wartime occupied Belgium, comes from Ealing Studios, is produced by Michael Balcon, and is well acted by the […]
Director Luis Buñuel’s still provocative, vital and amusing 1930 avant-garde Surrealist masterpiece early work L’Age d’Or [The Golden Age] intends to shock and provoke as it sends up the hypocrisies of organised religion and bourgeois society, […]
Director Mark Joffe’s 1988 Grievous Bodily Harm is an intriguing, tough-edged Aussie mystery crime thriller with a satisfactorily labyrinthine plot about a teacher (John Waters) who uncovers a connection between his missing wife (Joy Bell) […]
‘The last gasp in chillers!’ Director William Beaudine’s mostly forgotten 1946 post-war black and white horror thriller The Face of Marble stars John Carradine, as the apparently rational but actually mad scientist Dr Charles Randolph, and […]
Director Rodney Ackland’s 1943 Thursday’s Child is a pleasant, well-made if slight little suburban family drama that has plenty of charm and appeal, though British distributors of the day neglected it. Sally Ann Howes stars […]
Though filmed in Rome, and directed and co-written by Italian filmmaker Luigi Cozzi [aka Lewis Coates], the entertaining space opera film Starcrash (1978) is an American production produced independently by brothers Nat and Patrick Wachsburger. […]