The Night of the Hunter
Loosely based on the case of an extortionist murderer who lured his victims via lonely hearts ads, The Night of the Hunter follows a predatory preacher (Robert Mitchum) infiltrating a […]
Loosely based on the case of an extortionist murderer who lured his victims via lonely hearts ads, The Night of the Hunter follows a predatory preacher (Robert Mitchum) infiltrating a […]
Bradley Cooper stars in this remake about a carnival drifter turned psychic grifter who cons the wealthy elite into a baffling Best Picture nomination. Watching a Guillermo del Toro movie […]
Our Double Bogie continues with The Big Sleep, adapted from the Raymond Chandler novel in which private detective Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) gets mixed up in the affairs of the […]
Private investigator Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) is chain-smoking his way through the afternoon when in walks a beautiful woman (Mary Astor) seeking his help to follow a man she claims […]
Set in a New York hotel with so much crime it needs an in-house detective, Don’t Bother to Knock follows Nell (Marilyn Monroe) who’s babysitting for the well-to-do Joneses (Lurene […]
Three desperate New Yorkers (Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan and Ed Begley) plan a bank job in Robert Wise’s 1959 film noir. If you’re wondering what this heist movie is doing […]
Claire from Lost gets lost and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (currently MIA from acting) tracks her down in Rian Johnson’s debut feature. I’ve seen this film three times and still have no […]
First up The Woman in the Window (“Films with ‘Man’ in the title“) a film which is certainly obscure enough to be a Quiz Call answer, even if it doesn’t […]
In one of four films Barbara Stanwyck made in 1950, she plays a pregnant woman mistaken for the person whose wedding ring she happens to be wearing during a train […]
The Bad Sleep Well (tell that to Margaret Thatcher) is Akira Kurosawa’s cross between Hamlet and American Psycho. Hip to be square or hip not to be square? That is the […]