The 1989 neo noir action crime movie Black Rain is a thoroughly involving, beautifully crafted cop thriller from Ridley Scott, who lifts a serviceably routine plot into an exciting movie. Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia […]
Charles Bronson and Anthony Perkins star in director Nicolas Gessner’s preposterous but fairly lively and engrossing 1971 Euro-thriller Someone Behind the Door [Quelqu’un derrière la porte], set in England, about an unbalanced neurosurgeon doctor Laurence […]
Ridley Scott’s nail-biting 1987 American neo-noir romantic thriller film Someone to Watch Over Me stars Tom Berenger as a New York cop assigned to protect a key murder trial witness, rich socialite Mimi Rogers. Director […]
Writer-director Eric Red’s 1989 crime thriller Cohen and Tate tells the unlikely but consistently intriguing tale of professional assassins Cohen (Roy Scheider) and Tate (Adam Baldwin), who are assigned to abduct a nine-year-old boy witness to […]
Director Eric Red’s 1991 Body Parts is a lolloping horror-movie mongrel, stitching a timeworn chiller premise into a slick MTV-style package that immerses itself in the horrors of modern technology after micro-surgeon Dr Agatha Webb […]
Director Francesco Rosi’s 1987 Italy / France / Colombia drama Chronicle of a Death Foretold [Cronaca di una morte annunciata] is a major miscalculation, with some embarrassing work from some big names of cinema. It […]
The body in question is Madonna’s and we get to see an awful lot of it in director Uli Edel’s disastrous 1992 erotic courtroom thriller Body of Evidence. Madonna won the 1994 Razzie Award for […]
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