2023-08-27 05:08
Drirected by Henry Hathaway, this is a rare and interesting piece of classic Hollywood. It is, firstly, just about the only pre-Civil Rights era film I’ve seen that portrays the Middle… Read More
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2023-08-27 04:58
A terrific vintage Shaw Brothers action film, directed by King Hu, and a clear generic model. Star Pei-pei Cheng appeared in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as the villainess Jade Fox, but he… Read More
2023-08-27 04:51
Modest, unsatisfying, cliched, but moderately creepy horror film, not to be confused the the 1979 William Devane-Casey Kasem classic featuring a rampaging alien in a rubber suit. Directed by… Read More
2023-08-27 04:46
Briefly after WW2 British cinema had a grown-up phase where sexual and psychological themes were treated with relative depth; The Seventh Veil and The Red Shoes are two classier examples. Th… Read More
2023-08-27 04:42
I like this movie although I suspect I shouldn’t. Carol Reed’s filming is grand but never pompous, lush colours contributing to shots carefully conceived to evoke the Renaissance… Read More
2023-08-27 04:33
Set in New York City’s gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera Rent tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent. “Measuring their live… Read More
2023-08-27 04:26
I’d been eager to watch this since hearing one of Burt Bacharach’s songs for the film, “Unwanted Number”, on the radio; I figured even if the film was lightweight the… Read More
2023-08-27 04:19
Since his charming 1996 feature debut While The Cat’s Away, Cedric Klapisch threatened to establish himself as a new-age Max Ophuls, maker of films based in blithe humanism and witsful… Read More
2023-08-27 04:14
Silly film benefts from low expectations. A combination of Orientalist and soap-opera cliches, it mangages to be easy on the eye. Giving Ziyi Zhang the part of Plucky Victimised Heroine is a… Read More
2023-08-27 04:09
Once a vision of a future where the world is run by corporations who keep the public distracted with extreme sports seemed plausibly distant; now it feels like a fucking documentary. It&rsqu&hell…Read More
2023-08-27 04:09
I’m always a sucker for dystopian fight-the-man parables. However this film never came close to living up to the cyberpunk intensity of its advertising images – especially Nat Po… Read More
2023-08-27 03:58
A tribute to sticky ends we relish. A great villain’s end is a culmination – of good storytelling, good acting, emotional involvement, a palpable sense of threat and danger &ndas&hell…Read More
2023-08-27 03:58
To say it’s not a patch on the first one is, well, not saying much, but I had forgotten how laaaaaaaaaammmmmmme it truly is. Which is a pity because it tosses a couple of ideas with po… Read More
2023-08-27 03:42
A tough, involving, emotionally fraught melodrama unfortunately peppered by plot holes and loose ends. The director, Olivier Marchal, is an ex-policeman, and he’s obviously strongly in… Read More
2023-08-27 03:42
Tough going – looks older than Moses, with an excruciating yessir massasir comic relief black boy. The static, talky, anti-epic sensibility of early sound cinema means the film has to… Read More
2023-08-27 03:39
A mixed experience. When concentrating on its central anti-hero, the film is swell; Paul Giamatti makes his dolorous, asocial character understandable. That far, is is an affecting portrait… Read More
2023-08-27 03:35
Crackerjack little film noir-western-true crime thriller based on the legend of the Lost Dutchman mine in the Superstition Mountain of Arizona. It’s taken from a book by Barry Storm, p… Read More
2023-08-27 03:29
A perverse, high-camp classic. Ken Russell doing Bram Stoker is bound to be insane (especially considering that the book is so godawful no-one can be expected to film it faithfully). Russell… Read More
2023-08-27 03:22
The Color Purple (1985) I expected this to be uneven – great as they are, all Spielberg’s dramas are uneven – and for the first two-thirds of the film I wasn’t quite… Read More
2023-08-27 03:22
Ripe and juicy melodrama later recycled as Broken Lance; Edward G Robinson has a ball playing an Italian banker whose hammy bonhomie conceals a ruthless prick; Richard Conte’s great as… Read More
2023-08-27 03:21
Stars an over-aged Andy Garcia who starts off well by dancing on a table and making come-ons to Pablo Picasso (who as we know was never called an asshole), but here he doesn’t go even… Read More
2023-08-27 03:20
Yet Another Drug Film has Heath Ledger and Abby Cornish working hard for their paltry Oz-industry wages, ably back up by Geoffrey Rush as a queer chemistry professor who makes a home-made he… Read More
2023-08-27 03:19
I’ve seen worse acting performances than Kate Beckinsale’s in this, but I can’t quite remember when. Her spray-on American accent meets its match in Jeremy Northam’s… Read More
2023-08-27 02:50
Okay, which genius thought it was a good idea for Glenn Ford to play a devastatingly charming and sexy Latin playboy previously incarnated by Rudolph Valentino? And cast him opposite Ingrid… Read More
2023-08-27 02:47
One of those semi-legendary works from the “Golden Age” of Aussie film that launched Philip Noyce’s career and cemented the reputation of co-writer Bob Ellis, whose screenp… Read More
2023-08-27 02:37
Quite apart from its historical significance – five minutes’ worth of trite dialogue and numerous horrific Al Jolson songs – this film is interesting for its still relevant… Read More
2023-08-27 02:36
Ken Branagh! Doing Shakespeare! Again! Can’t this guy take a hint? No-one cares! Take your pudgy little Irish mug and stick to the stage! You ain’t competing with Ben Stiller! Wh… Read More
2023-08-27 02:35
Might have been more accurately called Yet Another Film About Parisian Bourgeoisie Fucking Around. People with excessive disposable income trip over each-other’s repressions and do str… Read More
2023-08-27 02:17
The first real movie Woody Allen’s made in a long time. He sustains tension and character and refines his style down to sleek functionalism, his mannerisms employed for effective ends… Read More
2023-08-27 02:16
So lacking in compulsion and intensity you could almost mistake it for imitation Hitchcock rather than the master himself. But it’s still witty and put together with skill. As Hitch&rs&hell…Read More
2023-08-26 05:12
Slick, sick, seedy neo-noir, intriguing for diving into gamy territory, with Clint Eastwood’s New Orleans cop balancing life as a depressed single father, hard work in tracking down a… Read More
2023-08-26 05:02
The film with the greatest line in cinema history – Richard Harris enquring with an utterly straight face, “What sweaty pervert?” – The Cassandra Crossing is also a s… Read More
2023-08-26 04:59
Beware the huge asparagus lurking under a southern California beach, sucking in unlucky bathers – and one unlucky rapist’s balls. Director Jeffrey Bloom must be admired for his a… Read More
2023-08-26 04:55
Salma Hayek was meant to portray her harsh, explosive, yet sensitive waitress, while Colin Farrell gives his frequently arrogant writer Arturo Bandini a lot of humanity. Apart from that, Rob… Read More
2023-08-26 04:34
Ismail Merchant’s final film as a producer, and one of the best with his and James Ivory’s fingerprints on it, benefits from a storey that could have easily starred Joan Crawford… Read More
2023-08-26 04:31
Ken Russell’s artist biopics generally have the same relation to their subjects that A Hard Day’s Night has to the Beatles – love letters to the idea of the artist’s… Read More
2023-08-26 04:24
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) Movie Review Shekhar Kapur’s original Elizabeth was an odd mutt of a film that tried to play English history as The Godfather, distinguished by Cate Bl… Read More
2023-08-26 04:15
Blandly pleasant, paint-by-numbers entry in the genre inaugurated by The Adventures of Priscilla but turned into a cash-cow by the British industry – The Full Monty, Billy Elliot, Cale… Read More
2023-08-26 04:09
Some have since attempted to portray this picture as a misunderstood classic whose scathing, devastating depiction of the corrosive memories of Vietnam was undermined by mediocre sequels. I… Read More
2023-08-26 04:03
Adaptation of a Conrad short story – fertile material for films; see also The Duellists – and a pitch-perfect bit of filmmaking from veteran Patrice Chereau. Unfolds with Hitchco… Read More
2023-08-26 04:01
Another barely watchable Aussie film that feels absurdly retro in its punk stylisation, with a proliferation of cliche gimmicks (such as the characters all being interviewed for television … Read More
2023-08-26 03:43
Richard Widmark plays a man whose powerful social resentment manifests as explosive displays of racist hate and borderline psychosis. This film is a classic piece of Old Liberal Hollywood &n&hell…Read More
2023-08-26 03:42
Shane Meadows’ first film, Twenty Four Seven, was a work that promised big things without delivering them, hyper-realistic but slightly hollow. Meadows seemed to realise this himself… Read More
2023-08-26 03:35
Neil Marshall’s second exercise in studying a besieged group in a remote place at the mercy of monsters is well-made, and fairly gripping, but dramatically slight, and walks literally… Read More
2023-08-26 03:34
Promises, on its DVD cover, “Satan worship, lesbian orgies, and buckets of blood.” Naturally, I couldn’t resist. In grand old grindhouse tradition, it couldn’t delive… Read More
2023-08-26 03:32
Michael Mann’s debut holds up superbly. It pulsates with fully-evolved stylistic originality, and shows that Mann in many ways took up where Coppola left off with The Conversation. Jam… Read More
2023-08-26 03:29
Film by Palmes D’Or winner Theo Angelopoulos. Angelopoulos is the art-film director your mother warned you about – his works are regularly four hours long, have little story, hav… Read More
2023-08-26 03:28
Olivier Assayas is the guy who, with Demonlover, made an S&M fantasy whereby Connie Nielsen was exiled to a fate of being tortured in a leather catsuit, and yet still came out of it with… Read More
2023-08-26 03:21
Ken Loach’s Palmes D’Or winner is an ambitious and troubling work, with Loach’s usual effortlessly real mise-en-scene, but it is a retread, in story, theme, and feel, of hi… Read More
2023-08-26 03:12
As much as this was a pulpy Fred Forsyth style adventure I tolerated it. The pretensions to relevance and the excruciatingly milked finale were, however, vomitiferous. Really, it should have… Read More
2023-08-26 03:10
Overlong, especially for such a morbid subject, and Anton Corbijn’s eye more than occasionally feels over-aestheticised and studied, compared to the knockabout grit of 24 Hour Party Pe… Read More
2023-08-26 03:08
A strange, occasionally brilliant, occasionally awful work that shows what happens when two off-kilter talents collide – in this case, Brian De Palma’s elegant, operatic film sty… Read More
2023-08-26 03:04
An odd duck for a classic swashbuckler – short, packed with droll humour, and with very little action. Its climactic swordfight between Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone takes place in a… Read More
2023-08-26 02:54
Based on an Irwin Shaw play, it has that familiar refrain of Key Largo in comparing Nazi-type ideology with gangsterism, and also (with Robert Rossen co-scripting) sneaks in a few capitalism… Read More
2023-08-26 02:51
Ten years or so ago, on the first occasion I sat through this, I felt it was something of a mighty miscalculation. I still think it’s one, but time has affected my response to Branagh… Read More
2023-08-26 02:47
The old art-imitates-life-imitates-art-imitates-life-imitates-who-the-hell-cares type of story is a pet-hate of mine. The idea of an actor who goes too far and lives the role seems to be per… Read More
2023-08-26 02:43
Melancholy, atmospheric film set in Brittany in 1963, when a wounded veteran of the Algerian uprising (Grégori Derangère) takes a job in a lighthouse, and finds himself cold-sh… Read More
2023-08-26 02:28
No matter how many times you watch it, it never improves, but the spectacular camp value increases. Heroic Keiron Moore! Screaming Janette Scott! Boring Howard Keel! Phillip Yordan getting o… Read More
2023-08-26 02:26
A precursor to Dead Ringers, this bright little nugget of a film is essentially a one-woman show for Olivia De Havilland, who plays twins Terry and Ruth, one of whom is a goody-two-shoes and… Read More
2023-08-25 18:55
Atmospheric mystery yarn (from a novel by signal pulp author Frederic Brown) featuring Pat O’Brien as – get this – a radical-minded art historian who crashes through the fr… Read More
2023-08-25 18:50
Things I noticed watching this again: 1) Genevieve Bujold is le mucho cool. 2) It’s basically Green For Danger ripped-off and re-framed for the Watergate era. 3) Michael Crichton is ac… Read More
2023-08-25 18:45
And what electric eye-candy it is. One gets so used to the dark undercurrents of Hitchcock’s work that it’s refreshing to watch him create a piece that is basically total style… Read More
2023-08-25 18:43
Indiana Jones vs Ninotchka The Good: Two hours absolutely fly by. Cate Blanchett’s delightful villainy. Ford’s most relaxed acting in fifteen years, aging comfortably. Terrific b… Read More
2023-08-25 18:38
Rock-hard crime film, immediate precursor to director Richard Fleischer’s The Narrow Margin, also featuring Charles MacGraw, here as a dogged cop who contends with a group of heist art… Read More
2023-08-25 18:36
The first of the classic Zatoichi films I ever saw, and it’s an unusually classy entry for the series, because of Toshiro Mifune’s presence and a top director, Kihachi Samurai As… Read More
2023-08-25 18:25
An obvious blending of Shane and High Noon. Stewart Granger plays a gunfighter who returns to his home ranch after many years and faces prejudice from yellow-bellied townsfolk and his son be… Read More
2023-08-25 18:22
I can’t really understate the humour value of Raymond Burr in a turban. Otherwise, spare yourself an hour and a half of boredom. You’d think a film with Yvonne De Carlo as a pluc… Read More
2023-08-25 18:19
Atom-age variation on the Petrified Forest-type gangster-takes-hostages tale. Stephen McNally plays the icy villain who realises the perfect place to hide out from the police is an old minin… Read More
2023-08-25 18:10
Pithy, nifty, and very dark Hitchcockian creep-fest with Déborah François as a cute blonde sociopath wreaking revenge on a nervy, self-involved pianist Catherine Frot, who ruin… Read More
2023-08-25 18:01
It’s peculiar that all the high-gloss, big-name casting, and sense of high drama has been expended on what amounts to a bunch of people chatting on a train. Generally I have no fondnes… Read More
2023-08-25 17:59
Though not up to the standard of The Philadelphia Story, this is a delightful little film, featuring Cary Grant and Kate Hepburn at their most incandescently charming and backed up by marvel… Read More
2023-08-25 17:56
I’ve always had a great affection for what could be called the midnight odyssey genre, which theoretically covers films as disparate as Adventures in Babysitting and Eyes Wide Shut. In… Read More
2023-08-25 17:47
I liked this much more than I expected to. The script was one-dimensional, but the elegant combination of George Hickenlooper’s energetic direction and Sienna Miller’s vivid perf… Read More
2023-08-25 08:13
Thomas Hughes Free Public Library is virtually unchanged since it opened in 1882. With 7,000 original volumes, it is still overseen by former librarian Eduard Bertz, a German perfectionist… Read More
2023-08-25 07:59
Newbury House In use since 1880, this “public house” offered board and lodging at the 1882 advertised rates of $4.50 to $6.50 per week, with a single meal for 25 cents. Today, it… Read More
2023-08-25 07:32
In 1994, South Carolina’s John D. Lake became the site of an infamous murder. In just two years, a horrific accident claimed seven more lives. Now, some locals say ghosts lurk near the… Read More
2023-08-25 07:22
The White Lady of Millinocket Maine The legend of Maine’s White Lady Bridge goes something like this: In the 1950s, a newly married couple were returning from a trip when their car swe… Read More
2023-08-25 06:59
Horror Movie! Here are options for downloading or watching Slotherhouse (2023) streaming the full movie online for free on 123movies & Reddit, including where to watch Gravitas Ventures… Read More
2023-08-25 06:43
Certainly one of the great war films, and possibly superior to Robert Aldrich’s better-known neurotic-noir Kiss Me Deadly, there is nonetheless one thing about it that has bugged me th… Read More
2023-08-25 06:34
I just had the privilege of seeing, at long last, this famous film of great dramatic depth, towering performances, dynamic direction, searing portrayals of crime and punishment, and frenzied… Read More
2023-08-25 06:23
Michael Winterbottom’s restless experimentalism results in this film that is, like much cutting-edge cinema of recent years, more about the study of the mood, behaviour, and texture of… Read More
2023-08-25 06:07
Holy shit, where has this been all my life? But enough from me. Here’s what my mother thought: . When Joan Crawford, Vienna, first made her appearance at the top of the stairs dressed… Read More
2023-08-25 06:01
The Great Depression hits home for nine year old Kit Kittredge when her dad loses his business and leaves to find work. Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin stars as Kit, leading a splendid cast in… Read More
2023-08-25 05:52
The Children’s Hour (1961) Movie Review & Film Summary The Children’s Hour (1961) is a powerful and thought-provoking film that explores the devastating consequences of lies… Read More
2023-08-25 05:52
Get Smart (2008) Movie Review and Film Summary Get Smart is a 2008 action-comedy film directed by Peter Segal. The movie is based on the 1965 television series of the same name, created by M… Read More
2023-08-25 05:49
Thoughts I had watching Bobby: The ‘60s had Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in Baby Jane. We have Sharon Stone and Demi Moore. Freddy Rodriguez is cool. But we knew that. “Alright… Read More
2023-08-25 05:48
James Mangold has been one of Hollywood’s quiet achievers for a decade now; Copland, Girl, Interrupted, Identity, and Walk The Line fulfilled their disparate, generic objectives with s… Read More
2023-08-25 05:46
Jack MacGowran, a consistently great actor, has one of his few leading roles here, playing the meek, absent-minded Professor Collins, besieged in his windowless apartment, haunted by the mem… Read More
2023-08-25 05:31
The son of a sailor, 5-year old Sosuke lives a quiet life on an oceanside cliff with his mother Lisa. One fateful day, he finds a beautiful goldfish trapped in a bottle on the beach and upon… Read More
2023-08-25 05:28
What a way to die – killed by the Mod Squad on an unrealistic snowy set. Shaw Brothers classics appeal to me for much the same reasons as the early Hammer films. They’re snappy… Read More
2023-08-25 05:27
This one had the stink of a wankfest from Day One. Fifteen minutes in, I turned it off, my sense of smell proven still sharp, and I think only the music got me that far in. Collecting a bunc… Read More
2023-08-25 05:26
A fine Marcel Carné film from the age of fullest flowering for the poetic-realist movement. But it’s also not of quite the same standard as Carné’s later Les Enfant… Read More
2023-08-25 05:21
Blake Edwards directs James Coburn in this entertaining but ridiculous murder-mystery, based on a Michael Crichton novel. The Carey Treatment dabbles in a few serious themes, dabbling with t… Read More
2023-08-25 05:20
There’s a great French word that describes this film perfectly. Honestly, how can anyone get away with passing a script like this off in our day and age? And with David S. Ward’s… Read More
2023-08-25 04:58
The popular hero of a long-running franchise sees his moral presumptions questioned and undermined, and his attempts to wipe out gangsters instead enabling an even worse foe to wreak havoc o… Read More
2023-08-25 04:58
March towards fate D.O.A. is an irritatingly near-great film. Rudolph Maté’s direction puts its head down and charges ahead, utilising location photography with a dexterity and… Read More
2023-08-25 04:46
Joss Whedon’s brave stab at transferring his motor-mouthed, semi-satirical geek-fest sensibility onto the big screen is one of the most frustrating and entertaining failures of recent… Read More
2023-08-25 04:44
The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon w… Read More
2023-08-25 04:38
Personally I think Lucas’ reinstituted series opener is zippy, gaudy, lightweight fun, obviously just a place-holder designed to keep the kids happy before moving onto more serious thi… Read More
2023-08-25 04:27
Pomposity and cliché – both narrative and moral – tend to dog war movies, and it’s worth remarking upon when a film in the genre goes for the rigorous, fatalistic to… Read More
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