The 1936 British black and white quota quickie mystery thriller The Man Behind the Mask is zesty, fast-paced vintage entertainment with pleasingly over-the-top performances and energetic handling, significant as an early work of the great […]
‘FLAMING DAYS of the Great Mountain Wars!’ Rather primitive acting and basic scripting hold back the interesting and pacy 1955 Universal International Pictures B-movie Eastmancolor Western film The Man from Bitter Ridge. But the political […]
‘Master’s law was one of order. Friday’s law was one of life. Each tried to overcome the other!’ Director Jack Gold’s 1975 British adventure drama film Man Friday is a revisionist version of Daniel Defoe’s […]
Director Danny DeVito’s 1992 film Hoffa stars Jack Nicholson, who gives a committed and powerful but one-note performance as Jimmy Hoffa, the notorious president of the all-powerful American teamsters’ union. DeVito’s old-fashioned biopic is as […]
Director Don Hartman’s 1949 RKO black and white film Holiday Affair, set during the Christmas season, stars Janet Leigh as World War Two war widow Connie Ennis, who is courted by affable department store sales […]
Unluckily for us, Benoît Poelvoorde plays a thieving psychopathic serial killer called Ben, who takes a camera crew around with him to film his murders, in the 1992 Belgian satirical black comedy mockumentary film Man […]
‘Terror! Vice! Violence! He stopped at nothing!’ James Mason stars as the mystery man in the middle of Carol Reed’s atmospheric Fifties Cold War film noir espionage thriller/ crime drama The Man Between (1953), based […]
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