Reviews

The Mob is all about Broderick Crawford and his performance - he'd just recently won an Oscar for playing Willie Stark in All the King's Men, and his turn here is so powerful and energetic you'd have to say that Johnny Demico was born to either go undercover or become an actor himself.

Mifune appeared in 16 Kurosawa films, starting with Drunken Angel in 1948 (alongside Shimura.) The two actors appeared together in 53 films over the years, including 15 Akira Kurosawa films.

In fact, the structure of the film - which includes components filmed all over New York - makes this more a film about the Big Apple than a murder.

Depending on which way you look at it, this dramatic '58 film is either a stinging condemnation of capital punishment or hysterical propaganda - but more curious minds might want to put aside whether Barbara Graham (Susan Hayward) was guilty of the murder of Mabel Monohan, and focus on the way the j...

Night and the City is a damned good movie though, and has become one of my favourite film noir classics from this period of moviemaking.

It's a vibe you rarely get from an out-and-out film noir thriller - something more akin to The Thin Man films - but it also manages to not lose itself and in the end stays the course as far as the seriousness of it's narrative and murderous intrigue goes.

Glad to catch this one - Macon Blair won the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic for this film at Sundance in 2017, and Melanie Lynskey was nominated for Best Actress at the Gotham Independent Film Awards.

Wells calls the film "emotionally autobiographical", which makes it unclear just how much the events in the movie correspond with real life, but what that must mean is that the feelings you get from watching the film are an accurate reflection of her real-life relationship with her father, and the a...

Today, CGI would be used to create a film with a much grander visual scale to it - but that would be an utter disservice to A Man For All Seasons, because it's a film that relies on a certain intimacy to proceedings.

Marfa, Texas was the place used for filming, with the rest of the production wrapped up in Los Angeles - and you walk away from the film with a succinct memory of that harsh, unrelenting sun that Plainview crawls under during the film's famous, long dialogue-free opening.