Director Claude Chabrol’s 1975 Une Partie de Plaisir [Pleasure Party] [Pleasure Game] [Love Match] is a study of an apparently idyllic and blissful but actually disastrous marriage that takes a dark, cynical and bleak view […]
Director Mark Robson’s 1955 A Prize of Gold tells a story of spirited high jinks in post-war Berlin. It is produced by Irving Allen and Albert R Broccoli, who formed Warwick Films to produce films […]
Director John Huston’s 1958 adventure drama The Roots of Heaven is a bumpy ride, in which the intelligent dialogue and messages (based on Romain Gary’s novel) take second place to mediocre adventure. It stars the […]
Oh Armie Hammer! He finds himself stranded in writer-director Babak Anvari’s going-nowhere horror mystery dud Wounds (2019), based on The Visible Filth, a horror novella by Nathan Ballingrud. Yet he gives is his all as […]
Writer-director Henry Jaglom’s tasty 1983 comedy romance Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? is a whimsically amusing, talky, plotless film from the admired film-maker, with starring Karen Black as edgy Zee, taking up with hypochondriac divorcee […]
Director Irvin Kershner’s 1961 black and white drama The Hoodlum Priest stars Don Murray as St Louis Jesuit priest, Father Charles Dismas Clark, who tries to keep hoodlum Billy Lee Jackson (Keir Dullea) on the […]
The solid, busy 1949 Western movie Canadian Pacific stars an ideal Randolph Scott as a railroad surveyor who discovers the pass through the Rockies, fights Indians and battles a trapper-boss (Victor Jory). Director Edwin L […]