Friday, November 27, 2020

Bombshell (2019)

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  ☆ ☆ ☆  ½ Bombshell (2019) – J. Roach Were there always this many films that offer a retelling of recent events using actors and Hollyw...
Monday, November 23, 2020

Nothing Sacred (1937)

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  ☆ ☆ ☆ Nothing Sacred (1937) – W. Wellman I’ll admit that I was a little underwhelmed by Nothing Sacred (screenplay by Ben Hecht, directed ...
Saturday, November 21, 2020

Blood and Roses (1960)

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  ☆ ☆ ☆  ½ Blood and Roses (1960) – R. Vadim Roger Vadim’s take on Sheridan Le Fanu’s (lesbian) vampire tale, Carmilla, is a haunting wide...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

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  ☆ ☆  ½ Murder on the Orient Express (2017) – K. Branagh I went into this Agatha Christie adaptation thinking it wasn’t going to be too c...
Friday, November 13, 2020

They Won’t Believe Me (1947)

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  ☆ ☆ ☆ They Won’t Believe Me (1947) – I. Pichel At the start of this film noir, Larry Ballentine (Robert Young) is on trial for murder.  ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

The Legend of Hell House (1973)

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  ☆ ☆ ☆ The Legend of Hell House (1973) – J. Hough Of course, this film owes a huge debt to Robert Wise’s The Haunting (1963), based on Sh...
Sunday, November 8, 2020

Dangerous Crossing (1953)

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  ☆ ☆ ☆ Dangerous Crossing (1953) – J. M. Newman Jeanne Crain is a newlywed having met her new husband just one month earlier and tying th...