Tom Courtenay stars as an antiques dealer mixed up with spies and murderers, in the amiable and amusing 1968 British spy comedy thriller Otley. Director Dick Clement’s 1968 British spy comedy film Otley is an […]
In the year after From Russia with Love, The Rank Organisation studios thought it was time to send up secret agents, so they got Dirk Bogarde to play Nicholas Whistler, a bumbling British Czech-fluent writer […]
Who’d have thought Olympus Has Fallen (2013) would turn into a trilogy? The third ‘… Has Fallen’ action thriller movie, Angel Has Fallen (2019), is surprisingly good, much better than expected, mixing well-staged violent action […]
Director Peter Yates’s thoroughly enjoyable and entirely amusing 1972 comedy thriller heist caper yarn The Hot Rock [How to Steal a Diamond in Four Uneasy Lessons] stars Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, Paul Sand, […]
Director Gower Champion’s 1974 comedy crime thriller Bank Shot stars George C Scott as Walter Ballantine, who leads a gang with a novel idea in bank heists – actually uprooting and driving away an entire […]
Tess in 1979 was the final film directed by Roman Polanski for seven years until his 1986 swashbuckler pirate movie Pirates. Roman Polanski’s rollicking 1986 pirate romp Pirates boasts a jolly performance by Walter Matthau […]
Ernst Lubitsch remakes his 1925 silent movie Kiss Me Again as the 1941 film That Uncertain Feeling, a daft but witty comedy about an insomniac wife (Merle Oberon), who gets psychosomatic hiccups and consults a […]
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