Director Peter Medak’s 1994 Pontiac Moon is a juvenile road comedy drama with unrealised pretensions that casts Ted Danson as absent-minded-professor Washington Bellamy, a dad who takes his young kid Andy (Ryan Todd) off in the […]
Director Peter Medak’s 1993 British crime thriller Romeo Is Bleeding is another incredibly nasty Nineties tale of indulgence and excess, in which Gary Oldman stars as Detective Jack Grimaldi, a New York cop assigned to watch violent […]
The Derek Bentley-Christopher Craig policeman murder case in Fifties London is recreated with flair and great attention to period accuracy by director Peter Medak in the 1991 drama Let Him Have It, following his 1990 […]
Director Phil Karlson’s excellent 1957 black and white film noir crime thriller The Brothers Rico is taken from a Georges Simenon novel called Les Frères Rico, and stars Richard Conte, James Darren, Dianne Foster, Kathryn […]
Director John Gilling’s rather pedestrian and plodding 1957 British black and white action thriller Interpol [Pickup Alley] has few surprises and little atmosphere, but it is distinguished by the dominating presence of Trevor Howard, who […]
Look what’s on the menu: ‘Pillage! Plunder! Passion! A SENSATION OF EXCITEMENT AND THRILLS!’ [Spoiler alert] An eclectic cast stars in director Terence Young’s interesting if run-of-the-mill 1956 action adventure thriller Zarak, about a British […]
Director-star José Ferrer’s 1955 British CinemaScope and Technicolor war film The Cockleshell Heroes is a sturdy account of a brave and dashing World War Two wartime exploit – the planting of mines on German enemy craft […]
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