‘LIBYA – 1943. After almost three years of bitter desert warfare, Rommel’s brilliant use of his Panzer divisions has driven the British into a position of desperation. The fate of the Mediterranean hangs in the […]
Brazilian film-maker Kleber Mendonca Filho’s exceptional 2016 film boasts a career high performance from Sonia Braga (Kiss of the Spider Woman, 1985). She plays 65-year old widowed retired music critic Clara, the last resident of […]
In her film debut, Shirley Booth won the 1953 Best Actress Oscar and Golden Globe for her extraordinary performance (repeating her Tony award-winning stage role) in director Mann’s 1952 film version of William Inge’s famous […]
Cult director Aki Kaurismäki’s determinedly oddball 1989 comedy from Finland tells the story of a spectacularly untalented Siberian rock band, the fictional Leningrad Cowboys, travelling across America with their manager Vladimir (Matti Pellonpää) to look for […]
An iconic Fifties cast adds huge allure to the intriguing 1955 cult crime thriller I Died a Thousand Times, the second remake of High Sierra, a film noir shot in CinemaScope and Warnercolor. Director Stuart […]
Raoul Walsh’s powerful 1949 Western film Colorado Territory gallops along, with a moody, fatalistic atmosphere swirling around Joel McCrea and Virginia Mayo, plus a dark film noir look refreshingly unusual in a Western. Director Raoul […]
‘At last the search was over … now he was face-to-face with the killers who had dishonored his wife!’ Director Budd Boetticher’s 1957 Technicolor classic cult Western film Decision at Sundown stars Randolph Scott as […]
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