Director Michael Winner goes to Israel to film Agatha Christie’s escapist vintage mystery thriller novel Appointment with Death in 1988 and the delightful Peter Ustinov amusingly impersonates the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot for the sixth […]
Stephen Frears’s delectable and enchanting biopic tells the story of middle-aged New York socialite Florence Foster Jenkins, a woman who would never let a little thing like having a terrible singing voice get in the way of her […]
John Brahm’s smooth, teasing 1946 film noir thriller The Locket stars lovely Laraine Day as Nancy, accused aged 10 of stealing a locket. Her life is then downhill all the way, from kleptomania to murder […]
John Carradine is typecast yet again in one of his long gallery of mad doctor scientists in director Brooke L Peters [aka Boris Petroff]’s plodding and very silly 1957 Sci-Fi chiller. It says much that […]
Written by Lillie Hayward and Michael Jacoby, director John Brahm’s taut, eerie and atmospheric 1942 horror thriller movie is creaky but still fun. With a werewolf as the main foe, it is amusing, fast moving and all […]
Ving Rhames stars as a top ranked heavyweight boxing champion called George ‘Ice Man’ Chambers who is jailed for rape – though he maintains that he is not guilty. Wesley Snipes also stars as Monroe Hutchen, […]
Excellent, telling performances from Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Mary Anderson and Howard Da Silva spark director Cy Endfield’s gritty 1950 crime drama thriller The Underworld Story, based on a story by Craig Rice. […]
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