The Clouded Yellow: film review
Staring Jean Simmons and Trevor Howard, The Clouded Yellow is an Alfred Hitchcock style thriller from 1950. … Read the full post »
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Staring Jean Simmons and Trevor Howard, The Clouded Yellow is an Alfred Hitchcock style thriller from 1950. … Read the full post »
A 1957 film starring Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton and Tyrone Power, Witness for the Prosecution is a murder mystery based on an Agatha Christie short story. … Read the full post »
Best of Enemies is a fascinating retelling of the TV debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr which changed TV coverage of US politics. … Read the full post »
A wild, wacky but true story of an outrageous character who changed the course of the world. A screenplay by The West Wing maestro Aaron Sorkin. An all-star cast which is also an all-talented cast including the likes of Philip Seymour Hoffman. … Read the full post »
The Flying Scotsman, starring Jonny Lee Miller, tells the story of Graeme Obree, a famous British cyclist from before such sports stars were really famous in the UK. … Read the full post »
Co-written by the highly inventive and successful creator of Paul Temple, Francis Durbridge, The Teckman Mystery is a 1950s Cold War noir thriller … Read the full post »
Most of the action in Operation Amsterdam is low key tension, aided by a very well judged musical score, and although an obviously dated film being from 1959, there is still plenty to enjoy. … Read the full post »
The leader of an opposition party is hospitalised after a horrific car crash days before polling day. Rivals to be his successor maneuver for support… … Read the full post »
This cult science fiction movie about a scientific disaster apparently killing nearly everyone on Earth is a real mixed bag. … Read the full post »
Predestination has such a tightly wound plot of temporal paradoxes that even when you guess the main twists, there’s still plenty to enjoy. … Read the full post »