Director Bernard Knowles’s 1947 adventure The Man Within [The Smugglers] is based on the novel by Graham Greene, and stars Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Joan Greenwood and Richard Attenborough. Little orphan Francis Andrews (Attenborough) solves […]
Charlie’s Angels (2019) is empty-headed adventure comedy hokum, with Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, Ella Balinska and Elizabeth Banks all pleasant presences and working hard enough but to little avail. They are chasing after some ludicrous […]
Lon Chaney Sr heads a fine cast as Alonzo, an armless knife thrower circus fakir, in director Tod Browning’s intriguing and engagingly weird, though less-famous 1927 MGM silent chiller The Unknown. Alonzo is literally a […]
Director Cy Endfield’s 1972 war action drama Universal Soldier stars ex-Bond George Lazenby as mercenary Ryker, a gun for hire back in London with a view to a kill. Feminist Germaine Greer plays a feminist […]
Sorry, it’s Knives Out here. Writer-director Rian Johnson’s Agatha Christie spoof Knives Out is long (130 minutes), slow, draggy, stale and not much fun at all. The performances are uniformly arch and overstated. Daniel Craig […]
Director Steven Seagal’s 1994 action adventure thriller On Deadly Ground has the unusual idea of pairing Steven Seagal with Michael Caine. Steven Seagal lumbers along as Forrest Taft, a mystical martial artist environmental worker, who specialises […]
Director Félix Enríquez Alcalá’s violent environmentalist 1997 action thriller Fire Down Below is based on a story by Jeb Stuart, and stars Steven Seagal, Kris Kristofferson and Marg Helgenberger. Evil industrialists like Orin Hanner Sr […]
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