So the advertising is a major help here. What we have in director George Archainbaud’s creaky but enjoyable 1930 romantic adventure movie is ‘Rex Beach’s Sledge-Fisted Romance of the Great Alaskan Salmon Run.’ Wallace Smith adapts the […]
Director Martin Ritt’s 1990 drama stars Robert De Niro as Stanley Cox, a hard-working diner cook who is one of 27 million Americans over the age of 17 who cannot read or write. Jane Fonda […]
Every woman wants to be wanted – just not by the Metropolitan police force. Anna Friel stars as unwed, lippy Aussie Maddy, who gets arrested and jailed after a mix-up over a packet of frozen […]
Basil Rathbone stars as mad doctor George Sebastian, who marries rich women and then, assisted by a crazy accomplice (Martin Kosleck), bumps them off to inherit their wealth. That is, until an old flame of his […]
Cult director Joseph H Lewis’s minor 1942 Universal Studios B-movie horror thriller stars Lionel Atwill as Dr Ralph Benson, the unbalanced doctor who is forced to leave San Francisco and sets off to a remote exotic […]
Produced by Martin Scorsese and Barbara de Fina, this dark and cynical 1993 thriller is a simple story of everyday violent folk, told with brio artificial style and remarkably little gore by John McNaughton, the […]
Director Simon Langton’s 1986 British thriller The Whistle Blower tells a reasonably engrossing, old-fashioned spy story. It is notable as the only major theatrical feature film featuring the British Intelligence agency GCHQ and for its location […]
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