Colin

LATEST ARTICLES ( 313 )

• The Price of Fear

  

  Hybrid movies, or those which blend and mix genres, can be fascinating when done well. When the recipe is a winner the results can be stimulating, the unexpecte... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Glass Web

  

  There's something interesting about looking at the shape of a filmmaker's career, what they were doing at certain points, whether there were overlaps or... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Warning Shot

  

  As a fan of film noir, I'm always a little saddened to think of how it gradually faded from cinema screens. Then again, that very briefness is part of its... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Silver City

  

  Watching movies again after a long gap can alternate between the rewarding and the disappointing. Any conclusions reached are, of course, entirely subjective... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Invasion of the Body Snatchers

  

  At first glance, everything looked the same. It wasn't. Something evil had taken possession of the town. There's something powerfully compelling about stories... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Violent Men

  

  Quality is a hard thing to define with any degree of precision. It's something we all know when we see it but try putting it into words, creating a label for i... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Man with the Gun

  

  " It doesn't look nice for a town as small as Sheridan to have a graveyard as big as we've got." Man with the Gun (1955) is what I think of as a small... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Roadblock

  

  Like what?Like me. I like the look of film noir, and I'm also fond of its narrative twists and switches, the way fairly regular people find themselves locked... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Blu News – More Prime Noir

  

  One of the great names among film noir directors has to be Robert Siodmak, a man who made a series of hugely impressive pieces of dark cinema throughout the... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Prowler

  

  Film noir is a look and an attitude as much as anything else. There's the darkness, both visually and thematically, and the fatalistic tone which creeps ever... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Blu News – More Lang on the Way!

  

  I'm delighted to see listings appearing online for a new Blu-ray/DVD combo release for Fritz Lang's 1954 film Human Desire. I reckon this is an underrated movi... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Southside 1-1000

  

  I find myself somewhat on the fence when it comes to documentary style film noir. Henry Hathaway is usually credited as pioneering the approach with The House o... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Naked Jungle

  

  Some films can be difficult to classify satisfactorily, not there's really any need for us to do so or for the film to accommodate our often arbitrary categorie... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Gunfight at Dodge City

  

  If any decade can be said to offer the finest representation of the strengths of the western, then the 1950s has to be it. And if any one year is to be... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Face of a Fugitive

  

  A race against the clock is usually a solid and bankable hook upon which to hang a story; there's that built-in element of suspense that grows naturally from... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• #446: Spoiler Warning 8 – Halfway House (1936) by Ellery Queen — The Invisible...

  

  Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to pay our respects to the detective fiction novel Halfway House (1936) written by Manfred Lee and Frederic Dannay... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Tattered Dress

  

  Ever wondered how films end up neglected? I was almost going to say "lost" but that's an entirely different category; I mean movies which are viewable,... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Halliday Brand

  

  When I started this blog a good many years ago my motivation was to talk about movies, in particular westerns. At the time I felt the genre was somewhat... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Odessa File

  

  Events that can change history sometimes hang on tiny chances. If I hadn't pulled to the curb, I wouldn't have caught the traffic light, nor seen the... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Fanatic

  

  Pressing ahead with more Hammer, let's step forward a few years to look at the next stage in the development of the studio's thriller output. The influence of... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES