Writer-director Keith Gordon’s 1992 war drama A Midnight Clear is a moving anti-war tale adapted from William (Birdy) Wharton’s novel by director Gordon, filming in City Park, Utah, ironically during the Gulf War. It tells […]
Director Vincent Sherman’s 1951 Goodbye, My Fancy stars Joan Crawford, who is miscast in Madeleine Carroll’s stage role in Fay Kanin’s play, as Agatha Reed, a US Congress woman in a love tussle with old […]
Burt Lancaster stars in the 1974 murder mystery thriller The Midnight Man as Jim Slade, an ex-homicide-cop, released from jail after shooting his wife and lover, who becomes mixed up in a student girl’s murder […]
Writer-director Bert I Gordon’s 1976 low-budget exploitation quickie The Food of the Gods is a silly, gooey chiller, adapted from an H G Wells story, about gunge from the ground that creates monsters of insects […]
Director Robert Bresson’s 1956 French film Un Condamné à Mort S’est Échappé ou Le Vent Souffle où il Veut [A Man Escaped] is the brilliantly made, stark, true story of a captured French Resistance fighter, […]
The 1971 French movie Juste Avant la Nuit [Just Before Nightfall] is a resonant, meticulously made, richly satisfying Claude Chabrol psychological crime thriller. Michel Bouquet stars as the slimy and pathetic advertising executive Charles Masson, […]
Director Joseph McGrath’s eccentric 1969 satirical comedy The Magic Christian stars Peter Sellers as a millionaire called Sir Guy Grand and Ringo Starr as the homeless boy Youngman, the son he adopts to be his heir, […]