Brian Helgeland’s 1999 neo noir crime thriller film Payback stars Mel Gibson as career thief Porter, who recovers from being double-crossed and left to die to exact revenge and get his share of a bloody heist. […]
Director Basil Dearden’s 1970 The Man Who Haunted Himself is a slight but effective tale of terror starring Roger Moore as Mr Harold Pelham, the quiet, boring businessman who recovers from a near fatal road […]
Sylvester Stallone stars in Nighthawks (1981) as New York City street cop Deke DaSilva, who reluctantly takes on the job of terminating international terrorist Heymar ‘Wulfgar’ Reinhardt (played by Rutger Hauer) when he blows up a […]
Writer-director Maxwell Shane’s 1947 black and white film noir Fear in the Night is a neat, enjoyable little puzzle thriller with an exceptionally satisfying plot about a bank clerk called Vince Grayson (DeForest Kelley) who […]
The 1956 American crime film noir Nightmare stars Kevin McCarthy as a New Orleans big-band clarinettist who has a nightmare in which he sees himself killing a man in a mirrored room. Kevin McCarthy stars in producers William […]
Will Hay’s last film My Learned Friend, directed in 1943 by Basil Dearden and Will Hay, is extremely funny and has the bonus of an unusually macabre edge to it. Hay plays seedy lawyer William […]
Director Marcel Varnel’s 1941 vintage British black and white comedy thriller The Ghost of St Michael’s stars Will Hay again as a tatty teacher called William Lamb involved with spies once more. Hay takes on […]
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