Oscar nominated Denzel Washington gives a slightly fussy, rather florid performance as autistic savant idealistic defense attorney Roman J Israel, Esq in writer-director Dan Gilroy’s low-key, slow-moving personal existential crisis drama. Roman has Asperger syndrome, a developmental […]
What Otto Preminger’s 1951 film noir mystery thriller The 13th Letter lacks in subtlety, it makes up for in style. What producer-director Otto Preminger’s 1951 film noir mystery thriller remake of Henri-Georges Clouseau’s 1943 French […]
Co-writer/ director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s beautifully acted and exquisitely crafted 1947 French policier thriller Quai des Orfrèvres is outstanding even in a genre the French regularly do so well. In Paris’s equivalent to Scotland Yard, the 36, […]
Director Ralph Thomas’s earnest and effective 1955 British World War Two wartime drama focuses on a brave band of British sailors (led by John Mills as commander Fraser, James Robertson Justice as admiral Ryder and John […]
Director Anthony Asquith’s excellent 1943 tale of wartime life at home (a brief shore leave) and at sea for a British submarine crew on the HMS Sea Tiger stars John Mills as the skipper, Captain […]
Director Michael Anderson provides a lively showcase for the lavish decor of the dubious 23rd century paradise that he conjures up in his good, crowd-pleasing 1976 sci-fi movie with the accent on pace, entertainment value […]
Karel Reisz’s classic 1959 British ‘Free Cinema’ documentary film looks at the lives of boys in a South London youth club, with revealing glances at their humdrum work lives. There is an amusing and telling […]
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