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Director Dwight H Little’s 1988 fourth episode in the long-running slasher franchise started by John Carpenter with Halloween way back in 1978, marks a properly scary return to the plot, theme and characters of that 1978 […]
Michael Myers again terrorises the feisty Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) in the 1981 film Halloween II from original writer/ producers John Carpenter and Debra Hill, with Donald Pleasence also back as Dr Sam Loomis. […]
Director Michael Winner’s horrible 1981 sequel to his original Death Wish (1974) tells another ugly story in which Charles Bronson’s troubled New York City architect Paul Kersey sets off on a new vigilante spree in Los […]
Writer-director Claude Chabrol is on peak form in the wonderful 1968 French psycho-sexual murder thriller La Femme Infidèle [The Unfaithful Wife]. And so is his then wife Stéphane Audran as Hélène Desvallées, the smart, unfaithful […]
Writer-director Claude Chabrol’s tantalizing, mesmerizing 1970 French thriller Le Boucher [The Butcher] is absolutely superb, a miniaturist masterpiece of tension, atmosphere and character. Chabrol’s then wife Stéphane Audran stars as a repressed French provincial small-town […]
Co-writer/ director Brad Anderson’s thrilling, uber-tense crime mystery drama is set on the Transsiberian express train from China to Moscow, the venue for chase, deception and murder when American couple Roy (Woody Harrelson) and Jessie (Emily Mortimer) […]
Director Michael Bay’s slick, glossy, violent, formulaic 1995 comedy action thriller has as many bodies as jokes, and more flashy pretty pictures of art deco-ed Miami than believable plot moments. It is an expensive, cynical, […]