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LATEST ARTICLES ( 313 )

• Rope of Sand

  

  "Consider the diamond itself for instance. Carbon, soot, chemically speaking. And yet the hardest of all matters. So hard, in fact, that whatever it touches mus... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Accused

  

  Film noir never seems to go out of fashion. Sure it has seen its box office power ebb and flow somewhat since its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s but movie fans... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Red Mountain

  

  One of the reasons I started this site many years ago was the opportunity it afforded me to write on and maybe draw some attention to movies (many of which... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Velvet Touch

  

  Guilt, fear and suspicion - these are all key characteristics of film noir. Marry those elements to the duplicity inherent in the world of the theater, where th... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Naked Spur on Blu-ray

  

  This is an especially pleasing piece of news and one I'm delighted to pass on. Anthony Mann's movies with James Stewart rate as some of the finest works in the... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ambush at Tomahawk Gap

  

  A quick perusal of the active ingredients of Ambush at Tomahawk Gap (1953) - a ghost town, a small group of criminals bound together by greed yet riven by hatre... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Seven Thunders

  

  Referring to a film as a war movie probably brings to mind images of large set piece combat scenes, of pitched battles raging across the screen with intensity.... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Macomber Affair

  

  There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now,... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Double Life

  

  Hollywood's penchant for picking away at the veneer of its own glamorous facade to steal a furtive glance at the preening, grasping and backstabbing that lies... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Valerie

  

  Perspectives and perceptions, views and understanding, the way we see events and how we process what's seen. This is the basis of Gerd Oswald's Valerie (1957), ... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Restless and the Damned

  

  Since I'm on vacation just now, I've decided to feature another contribution from site regular Gordon Gates . He frequently comes up with titles that are... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Some Came Running

  

  Some Came Running (1958) is quite simply a great movie. It's a study of fear and frustration in small town America in the post-war years. Every main character i... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Moonfleet

  

  Recognizing the familiar in the atypical; that sounds like the kind of triumphant banality commonly attached to a piece of cod sociological theorizing. In... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Flame

  

  Flashbacks and double crosses, love triangles and scheming women, blackmail, obsession and murder. Add in some moody and expressive visuals as well as the type... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Blowing Wild

  

  "You'll never get away from me. I'll never let you go. I'll say you helped me. I'll say I killed him and you helped me. I don't care if they hang me just so the... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Impulse

  

  Billy Wilder made The Seven Year Itch in 1955. Twelve months before that, Cy Endfield's Impulse had a moody Arthur Kennedy longing to scratch the 8 year... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Left and a Right

  

  The fight game, with its allusions to glory and honor taking a ringside seat with corruption and manipulation, has often been featured in films noir, either... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Quantez

  

  Men ride longer over blood than money. The western as a chamber piece almost seems like a contradiction in terms, doesn't it? The entire genre is built around... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Major Dundee on Blu-ray

  

  Due in mid-June from Arrow. While the movie has been released in high definition elsewhere before now, this limited edition looks like being a full bells and... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Autumn Leaves

  

  The present is made up of little bits of the past. Recently, I spoke a little about filmmakers venturing outside of their perceived comfort zone and the how... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES