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The Ox-Bow Incident
You’re a new arrival in a small, suspicious town, having just ridden in with your pal from a long cattle run. While you are kicking your heels at the local saloon a breathless messenger arrives...
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It Always Rains on Sunday
The first time Rose spies the handsome Tommy Swann in It Always Rains on Sunday she’s smitten. She’s working the bar in an East End London boozer when the saloon doors open and Tommy sweeps in wearing...
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Where The Sidewalk Ends
As Richard Nixon, Bob Halderman and every other politician caught in the wake of the Watergate break-in can tell you, it’s often not the original crime that will do you in but rather the cover-up....
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The House on Sorority Row
That Mark Rosman worked prior to this picture with Brian De Palma should come as no surprise. The House on Sorority Row owes as much to that director’s work as it does to the Gialli that made such an...
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The Badlanders
“Personally I don’t trust Mexis.” “Personally I do. I’ve even forgotten the Alamo.” Boy, oh boy. Delmer Daves sure liked to subvert the stereotypes of the Western, didn’t he? After adapting Hamlet for...
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The Thin Blue Line
Murder is, by definition, no laughing matter. So it’s disconcerting to hear the details of a particularly sanguinary killing, the roadside shooting of a Texas policeman, recalled and recounted by an...
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Silent Running
There’s a scene early on in Silent Running that nicely encapsulates the vibe the film. The technicians aboard the USS Valley Forge, one of four spaceships orbiting Saturn, are having lunch as they...
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Cohen and Tate
Eric Red hit Hollywood with a bang in the mid-eighties. His screenplays for The Hitcher and Near Dark were both highly acclaimed so it’s no surprise that his next opportunity should be to direct...
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The Split
Author Donald Westlake’s two greatest creations are criminals. Both are fundamentally honest and supremely meticulous planners but that’s where the similarities end. Parker is focused, laconic and...
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Play Dirty
“War is a criminal business; I fight it with criminals.” From Emil Jannings winning the first every best actor Oscar in 1928 for The Last Command through to the recent success of Dunkirk, war pictures...
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