Director Joseph Losey’s beautiful looking, smart and clever 1962 erotic thriller is based on the 1945 novel Eve by James Hadley Chase (1906–1985), author of No Orchids for Miss Blandish, his first book filmed in 1948 […]
Gordon Douglas’s second thriller in row of three finds Frank Sinatra starring as troubled New York City Detective Joe Leland, in the 1968 film The Detective. It’s a cop movie, not a private eye thriller, […]
The enjoyable 1968 neo-noir mystery crime thriller film Lady in Cement stars Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Dan Blocker, and Richard Conte. It’s a busy, cynical and raw private eye detective thriller with, for its day, […]
Based on Ivan Reitman’s 1984 classic Ghostbusters, written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, co-writer / director Paul Feig’s 2016 remake is two hours of patchy effects-driven comedy. Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones star as a middle-aged […]
Director Marvin Chomsky’s fairly entertaining 1971 biopic of the famed real-life dare-devil motorbike stuntman Evel Knievel stars George Hamilton, who plays him effectively here all cocky swagger, teeth and smiles, and suntan. Naturally the exciting […]
John Ford said: ‘Seven Women (1966) is one of my favourite pictures. I thought it was a swell story and a good script.’ But, after three days of filming, original star Patricia Neal had a […]
The sizzling 1967 neo-noir thriller film Tony Rome finds Frank Sinatra enjoying a classic hard-boiled detective role as tough Miami private investigator Tony Rome, an ex-cop who lives on a powerboat called Straight Pass. Director […]
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