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Director Christopher Nolan’s 2002 movie is a distinguished, creepy remake of Erik Skjoldbjærg’s 1997 Norwegian psychological thriller Insomnia that starred Stellan Skarsgård. This time it is Al Pacino’s turn to look tired. That’s because he hasn’t had […]
Director Gregory Hoblit’s 1996 film Primal Fear is an excellent, neatly twisting thriller that grips throughout, with Richard Gere in top gear as Martin Vail, a smug Chicago attorney getting out of his depth when […]
Daniel Radcliffe stars as Allen Ginsberg (1926-97) in this riveting biographical drama about the early adult years of the beat generation literary stalwarts. Kill Your Darlings is extremely engrossing, beautifully crafted and marvellously well done. […]
There’s panic, fear and distrust in the streets as a real-life serial killer maniac called Son of Sam is on the loose, stalking the streets of New York in the long, hot summer of 1977. Director […]
In 1937 Alfred Hitchcock freely adapts Josephine Tey’s classic crime novel A Shilling for Candles as one of his archetypal free-wheeling, fast-moving, witty bantering pursuit thrillers. Along with Strangers on a Train, The 39 Steps and […]
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1953 film noir-style thriller film I Confess, set and filmed on location in moody Quebec City, is a worthy and watchable but glum experience. There is too much internal introspection for an exciting […]
Alfred Hitchcock’s lively, imaginative 1929 pioneering thriller film Blackmail is remarkable as Britain’s first talking picture. It’s a treasured relic of a bygone era. A highly impressive piece of work considering its age and filming […]