CRIMEWATCH: One False Move
In Los Angeles a young black woman named Fantasia (Cynda Williams), her lover Ray Malcolm (Billy Bob Thornton) and their cohort Lenny “Pluto” Franklin...
Tagged: thriller
Journey through the nightmarish Outback of WAKE IN FRIGHT
Regarded as one of Australian Cinema’s most famous cult films next to Mad Max (1979) Director Ted Kotcheff’s 1971 psychological thriller Wake In Fright...
Film Noir Classics: BLOOD SIMPLE
To celebrate the month of Noirvember I wanted to delve into the first wave of film noir and its post-modern form that is every...
Film Noir Classics: PANIC IN THE STREETS
Above a jazz club in New Orleans a poker game run by Blackie (Jack Palance) is being held. One of the players, a foreigner...
ARGO
Did you ever think that Ben “Gigli” Affleck would become a respected Hollywood director who now has three great films under his directing belt?...
Film Noir Classics: D.O.A.
In the opening moments of Rudolph Mate’s suspense heavy film noir masterpiece D.O.A. (1950) star Edmond O’Brien is filmed in a tracking shot as...
Film Noir Classics: THE HITCH-HIKER
Based on the true story of Billy Cook a psychotic killer, Ida Lupino’s The Hitch-Hiker (1953) is a prime example of what makes film...
The Films of Don Siegel: Dirty Harry
We couldn’t do our Don Siegel retrospective without reviewing the film that features one of the international icons of popular cinema… Clint Eastwood plays...
Take a bite out of JAWS this summer
What better time to re-release Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster classic than at the height of the summer? It is legendary today as the movie...
Walter Hill’s Southern Comfort
Walter Hill got his start in film as an assistant director on Bullitt (1968), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and Woody Allen’s screwball crime...
