Director Taylor Hackford’s 1985 movie White Nights is a daft but entertaining chase-dance drama, a peculiar hybrid of musical and thriller, giving good chances to players difficult to cast. Mikhail Baryshnikov charismatically plays a Russian […]
Director Roger Donaldson’s 1992 action crime thriller White Sands stars Willem Dafoe as Ray Dolezal, a US southwestern small-town deputy sheriff who investigates the appearance of a mysterious corpse he finds lying next to a […]
Gerry Marsden, Fred Marsden, Les Maguire, and Les ‘Chad’ Chadwick, aka Gerry and the Pacemakers, star as thinly fictionalised versions of themselves in director Jeremy Summers’s 1964 black and white musical film Ferry Cross the […]
Director Stuart Walker’s infamous 1933 American pre-Code black and white Paramount Pictures drama film White Woman stars Charles Laughton, Carole Lombard, Kent Taylor and Charles Bickford. Lombard plays nightclub singer Judith Denning, a young widow […]
Director Kurt Neumann’s 1939 black and white crime thriller film Island of Lost Men is a stock adventure yarn in which oriental daughter cabaret singer Kim Ling (Anna May Wong) discovers that her absconded Chinese […]
Director Nick Grinde’s 1939 black and white crime thriller King of Chinatown is an intriguingly written, fast-moving and atmospheric mob story that rattles along thanks to effective performances and tough action scenes. Akim Tamiroff stars […]
Talented and likeable but variable comedic actors Jim Belushi [James Belushi] and John Ritter can’t get writer-director Dennis Feldman’s weird 1987 spy action comedy Real Men started, thanks to a lame script and a flat […]
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