Writer-director Brian De Palma’s technically imaginative 1974 film revision of The Phantom of the Opera updates the horror old story to modern-day America and the pop scene of the early Seventies, turning it into a […]
The writing-producer team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat’s biography of a modern-day cad, inspired by Hogarth’s famous eight prints, is clever, sharp-witted and good humoured. Director Sidney Gilliat’s polished 1945 British comedy drama gives […]
The Boulting Brothers’ 1947 British film adaptation of Howard Spring’s book Fame Is the Spur, chronicling the rise and disillusionment of a British Labour Party politician, Hamer Radshaw (Michael Redgrave), is a solid if not […]
Brian De Palma’s self-mocking 1992 psychological horror suspense thriller film Raising Cain is stylistically and thematically extravagant, and gleefully self-indulgent. John Lithgow stars as psychopathic, multiple-personality child psychologist Carter Nix. Writer-director Brian De Palma’s self-mocking […]
Director Brian De Palma’s 1989 movie is one of his half-dozen masterworks. Indeed it is a flawed masterpiece, and will come as a serious surprise to those who know De Palma only for Carrie, Blow […]
The 1940 comedy thriller film The Ghost Breakers re-teams Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard for one of the best examples of the classic Hollywood horror comedy. Director George Marshall’s 1940 comedy thriller film The Ghost […]
Writer-director Radley Metzger’s forgettable 1978 British second remake of the classic old dark house comedy thriller at least boasts an interesting all-star cast. It stars Honor Blackman, Michael Callan, Edward Fox, Wendy Hiller, Beatrix Lehmann, Olivia […]
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