Director Robert Asher’s 1959 British black and white comedy Follow a Star stars Norman Wisdom as Norman Truscott, a meek and mild tailor/ wannabee singer, employed by croaky crooner Vernon Carew (Jerry Desmonde) to sing […]
Jacques Deray’s 1974 French thriller film Borsalino and Co stars Alain Delon as gangster Roch Siffredi in a sequel to his hit Borsalino. This time Delon goes through hell and high water to avenge his […]
Director Ivan Passer’s 1971 American crime comedy drama Born to Win stars George Segal, Paula Prentiss, Karen Black, Hector Elizondo and Robert De Niro, which must be a recommendation in itself. Milos Forman’s Czech emigré […]
[Spoiler alert] Director Taylor Sheridan’s Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021) is a perplexingly poor action thriller with Angelina Jolie under-employed and under-engaged as troubled fire-fighter Hannah, who befriends a 14-year-old boy called Connor (Finn […]
Columbia Pictures’ 1941 black and white crime film Meet Boston Blackie stars Chester Morris in the first of his 14 B-movies as the notorious but honourable jewel thief Boston Blackie. ‘SPIES STALK CONEY ISLAND!’ Director […]
Writer-director John Harlow’s 1943 over-the-top Sexton Blake black and white British wartime crime mystery thriller Meet Sexton Blake! stars reliable actor David Farrar, who is well cast as the famous detective called in by the […]
The 1937 mystery film The League of Frightened Men stars smooth Walter Connolly, who makes a good job of playing Rex Stout’s grouchy housebound detective hero Nero Wolfe. ‘NERO WOLFE CAN GET AWAY WITH MURDER […]
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