Aliens are employing Bill Farrell (Tom Tryon) to control the Earth in producer-director Gene Fowler Jr’s cheap and cheerful 1958 sci-fi cult movie, made for just $125,000 or $175,000 (estimated) by Paramount Pictures. Poor Marge […]
Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte star as Chicago newspaper reporter rivals Sabrina Peterson and Peter Brackett, who, instead of competing, reluctantly link up after a suspicious train crash to investigate the mystery. Co-writer/director Charles Shyer’s […]
Co-writer/director Lone Scherfig’s complete and fulfilling 2002 Danish Euro drama stars Adrian Rawlins as kind and good-natured Harbour, who always takes care of his suicidal younger brother Wilbur (Jamie Sives). Scherfig’s Zentropa movie, set in a beautiful […]
Walt Disney’s 1946 tale of a boy called Johnny (Bobby Driscoll) coming to live on a plantation with his Mother (Ruth Warrick) and Grandmother (Lucile Watson) makes for a lovely children’s movie, though perhaps it just […]
Anthony Asquith’s polished but stuffy 1959 British courtroom drama thriller film Libel retells an old story that has not aged too well. But it has an alluring cast – Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland, Paul […]
Director Jack Conway’s 1941 comedy does itself and us the enormous favour of teaming The Thin Man (1934) couple William Powell and Myrna Loy yet again. Powell stars as Steve Ireland, who attempts everything he knows to […]
MGM Studios assembles a top-notch cast for director Tay Garnett’s great 1935 adventure yarn of piracy and romance on the high seas. Aboard ship Hong Kong to Singapore are dynamic, hard-drinking captain Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable), his […]
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