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This crazy story of Tinsel Town’s flotsam and jetsam is an intriguing, gorgeous looking but utterly unfathomable 2001 surreal noir movie from the master of the macabre, writer-director David Lynch. He landed a Best Director […]
As Steven H Price, Geoffrey Rush does a good, cheeky impersonation of Vincent Price in this welcome but iffy and not always sufficiently amusing 1999 reworking of the old 1958 William Castle horror movie. Price played […]
Christopher Nolan’s 1998 neo-noir crime thriller film Following is his promising feature film debut. It is now acclaimed as one of the most notable no-budget films, showing Nolan’s flair, but it is an excellent little […]
Co-writer-director Shane Meadows’s 1998 film reunites him with co-writer Paul Fraser and cinematographer Ashley Rowe, after their success with 1997’s boxing club movie Twenty Four Seven. The friendship of 12-year-old best mates Romeo Brass and […]
Director John Sturges’s brilliant 1955 Western thriller is his finest celluloid moment, bringing simmering, atmospheric suspense scaldingly to the boil. Spencer Tracy relishes one of his finest roles as one-armed army veteran John J Macreedy, who arrives […]
Lino Ventura is perfect as a doomed anti-hero in Claude Sautet’s bleak, tough 1960 French film noir-style gangster film Classe Tous Risques [The Big Risk]. Sandra Milo plays a young actress befriended by a young […]
The inspired 1951 Alfred Hitchcock classic Strangers on a Train is quite simply the movie suspense thriller by which all others must be judged. After a hiatus in box-office successes, Hitchcock hit one of career […]