Colin

LATEST ARTICLES ( 313 )

• Maniac

  

  Hammer and horror, it's hard to think of one and not the other. I guess this is fair enough as the studio made its name, and maintains its own corner within... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Home to Danger

  

  Somehow, without consciously having planned to do so, I've seen myself on a British thriller kick this summer and therefore embarked on this series of short... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Last Man to Hang

  

  The whole notion of justice is a marvelously complex area. The entire history of civilization could be seen as an attempt to define exactly what that word means... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Paid to Kill

  

  Previously I made the assertion that instances of bad luck and, let's say, poor choices when it comes to decision-making were major ingredients of film noir. I... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• You Can’t Escape

  

  Aside from the visual motifs, film noir leans heavily on the presence of certain thematic elements. Betrayal and suspicion figure strongly, and crime of some... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Dark Man

  

  After spending a bit of time with 60s crime pictures I'm taking a step back into the 50s again to look at another unheralded movie. I mentioned before that... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Informers

  

  I'm going to stick with 60s crime for a bit longer, following on from the last entry. It seems safe to say that a harder edge had crept into mysteries and... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Tomorrow at Ten

  

  Finding myself writing about a lot of crime movies of late, I consequently find myself ruminating over what goes into making these genre pieces successful.... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Upturned Glass

  

  The last few entries here have focused firmly on smaller scale, low budget British movies, those with a certain modesty in terms of both production values and... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Night Won’t Talk

  

  Continuing with my trawl through British movies that have been largely neglected, I now come to The Night Won't Talk (1952), an atmospheric little whodunit... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Wrong Number

  

  More British cinema, and more low budget British filmmaking to be exact. The fact is I've been watching a lot of this material lately and enjoying it... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Catacombs

  

  I'm in the mood for small-scale British thrillers just at the moment and am currently enjoying some new watches alongside some revisits. Last time I looked at... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Hostiles

  

  Rumors of its demise, and so on. Every so often one hears of the passing of the western, the obituary of the genre being wheeled out and presented newly... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Specialty of the House

  

  No, I haven't decided to transform this place into a restaurant review site. The "house" I'm referring to here is the Hollywood studio, and the question is whic... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

  

  Some titles are just irresistible, catching the eye and positively insisting that you watch them. And if ever a movie title seemed to encapsulate the absolute... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Scorsese, Republic & MoMA

  

  Just been made aware of this event in February (with a follow-up scheduled for the summer) which highlights the restoration of the Republic Pictures library.... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Blu News – Duel at Diablo

  

  It's just come to my attention that Ralph Nelson's gritty 1966 westernDuel at Diablo is being released on Blu-ray by Koch Media in Germany at the end of March.... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ivy

  

  Film noir has been featured pretty regularly on this site over the years, and anyone who has visited here will likely be aware that I tend towards a reasonably... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Blu News – Ramrod

  

  The announcements are coming thick and fast these days! I wrote a piece on back in the days when the movie was only available in ropey and generally rotten... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Blu News – The Hanging Tree – Updated

  

  While this "news" of a movie I hold in the highest esteem has already broken, I'm just adding an extra bit of info which pleased me no end when I saw it, and I... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES