The 1958 British thriller Orders to Kill is a powerful and persuasive wartime moral dilemma film. Paul Massie stars as an American agent parachuted into France in World War Two with orders to kill a […]
Director Alan Gibson’s mediocre 1969 Hammer horror stars Stefanie Powers as Susan Roberts, a brisk and capable US research graduate, who sets off for southern France to seek out a decidedly odd family to do […]
Director Ava DuVernay’s Disney kids and early-teen movie for easily entertained girls is embarrassingly awful, with a shamelessly manipulative and sentimental screenplay by Jennifer Lee and Jeff Stockwell, based upon the novel by Madeleine L’Engle. It plays like a […]
I have good news! Writer director Jian Liu’s dark and brutal noir animation film 2017 Have a Nice Day [Hao jile] is brilliantly smart and stylish. In his simple but complicated story set in a […]
Universal Studios lost the rights to the original J B Priestley story in 1957 and director James Whale’s brilliant 1932 old dark comedy chiller The Old Dark House was duly remade by director William Castle in 1962 for […]
Jack Nicholson stars as a down-at-heel guard dog trainer hired by opera singer Joan Spruance (Ellen Barkin) to steal a manuscript for a tell-all book from one of his clients, her airhead sister who is […]
There are bleeding hearts aplenty in director Stephen Roberts’s well-played by extremely trite little 1936 melodrama in which Herbert Marshall plays Doctor Michael J Talbot who divorces his selfless wife Anne Talbot (Ann Harding) for […]
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