‘BENEATH HIS MASK… the Grotesque Face of Horror Unimaginable! INSIDE HIS HEART… the Desperate Desire for Beauty and Love!’ Director Terence Fisher’s 1962 British remake of the 1910 Gaston Leroux novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra is […]
Universal studios light comedy specialist Arthur Lubin turns his hand to the screen’s classic of terror in 1943. And he makes a neat job of directing this incredibly beautiful, extremely opulent version of the 1925 […]
Roman Catholic to its very soul, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1956 true-life near docudrama is a devastating portrait of a guiltless victim and his martyrdom. It’s the story of a tormented, Christ-like figure. This time, it’s not […]
‘My name’s John Ford and I make Westerns,’ said the director, and the double Oscar-winning 1939 masterwork Stagecoach is his most famous. ‘My name’s John Ford and I make Westerns,’ said the director, and the […]
In 1936 Alfred Hitchcock shrewdly casts the youthful, dashing matinée idol John Gielgud as W Somerset Maugham’s reluctant English espionage hero Richard Ashenden in his 1936 thriller Secret Agent. During the First World War, the […]
The involving, polished 1992 American drama film School Ties is notable for providing some of the first cinema lead roles for Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Cole Hauser. Dick Wolf and Darryl Poniscan […]
Wrestling star The Rock is as solid as a rock as a movie star in the title role in this thrilling, non-stop action spin-off from The Mummy Returns (2001), directed by Chuck Russell in 2002. […]
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