Director André de Toth’s 1957 Monkey on My Back is a downbeat but compelling biopic about the rise and fall of champion boxer, World War Two war hero and morphine addict Barney Ross. It is […]
When a Chinese family discovers their beloved grandmother Nai Nai (Shuzhen Zhao) has only a short while to live, they decide not to tell her, and they stage an impromptu wedding as a cover for […]
Rambo: Last Blood is grim and gloomy, and no fun at all… Director Adrian Grunberg’s 2019 action adventure thriller Rambo: Last Blood, aka Rambo V, passes the time but it is pretty bad. Playing like […]
Aaron Taylor-Johnson is excellent in director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s A Million Little Pieces (2018) as 23-year-old aspiring writer James Frey, who is massively self-destructing through addiction at drugs and alcohol. His brother Bob Frey Jr (Charlie […]
Producer-director John H Auer’s ambitious 1953 film noir-style crime drama City That Never Sleeps stars Gig Young, later a talented light comedian, who enjoys a useful straight role as Johnny Kelly, a married Chicago cop […]
The 1945 screwball comedy Christmas in Connecticut is a deliciously sugary and very amusing Yuletide movie, starring Barbara Stanwyck. Director Peter Godfrey’s 1945 screwball comedy Christmas in Connecticut is a deliciously sugary and very amusing […]
‘THROUGH THE TWISTING ALLEYS A WOMAN SEEKS HER MAN AND COLD-BLOODED KILLERS AWAIT HER TOO!’ Producer-director John H Auer’s 1954 black and white drama Hell’s Half Acre from humble Republic Pictures stars Wendell Corey as […]
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