Producer-writer-director D W Griffith’s racist 1915 silent movie landmark tale of two families during and after the American Civil War is the American cinema’s first epic and it can still exert a strong hold on […]
Producer-writer-director D W Griffith’s 1916 classic epic silent film Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages celebrated the 100th birthday of its US release on 5 September 2016. It advertised ‘colossal spectacle’, and that’s exactly what […]
Ann Todd and Herbert Lom are outstanding in director Compton Bennett’s rousing Oscar-winning 1945 British psychiatry drama The Seventh Veil but it is James Mason who steals the show. ‘If you won’t play for me, […]
The legendary chiller king Val Lewton produces director Mark Robson’s deliciously brooding and sinister 1943 film noir-style melodrama about a group of Satanists in Greenwich Village uncovered by the heroine Mary Gibson (Kim Hunter), after she arrives […]
In his directorial debut feature, Simon Stone writes and directs an interesting riff on Henrik Ibsen’s 1884 Norwegian classic play The Wild Duck, moving it to a modern setting and Australia, filming in Sydney. It is all about […]
There are things wrong with the engagingly eccentric and berserk 2016 crime thriller The Trust, but the star performances of Nicolas Cage and Elijah Wood are not among them. They are faultless and funny as Jim Stone and David Waters, a pair of maverick Las […]
Director Eugenio [Gene] Martin’s Spanish-British 1972 thriller is an enjoyable express ride down the track of terror, in a tale jam packed with enough incidents for half a dozen regular horror films. Christopher Lee stars as […]
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