There are certain films they just don’t make any more and these charming crime capers like "How To Steal A Million" are just some of them, sadly. I am not entirely sure, why these romanticized, playful and funny films that were full of [...]
Very much in the vein of ’Rebecca, ’ which he directed one year earlier, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1941 thriller ’Suspicion’ is an atmospheric film in which a lot of the suspense is created by the way the story suggests certain things and directs the [...]
When successful businessman Wayne Hayes (Robert Redford) kisses his wife Eileen (Helen Mirren) goodbye one morning and begins to drive off to work, everything seems normal. But when a man named Arnold Mack (Willem Dafoe) stops him at the end of his [...]
Well, it’s official. Computers have taken over the world. After abandoning hand-painted cel animation some time ago, Disney has now also replaced the hand-drawn mouse with a 3-dimnesional computer rendered counterpart. When I first heard about it, the [...]
Just when you thought it was safe to turn on the TV again without being inundated with teenage soap operas á la ’Melrose Place’ or ’90210, ’ along came ’The OC.’ Fortunately for everyone involved, this show is actually much better than [...]
The world has seen many visionaries but in recent history, few only have been as influential as Howard Hughes. His influence is as far reaching as the airplanes you see in the skies to movies, Las Vegas casinos and small little convenience gadgets. At an [...]
I have to admit that I’ve never been a big fan of the original "Stepford Wives" from 1975. I always found the film a tad too dry and unexciting for its own good. However, under the direction of Frank Oz, whose body of work I greatly admire and [...]
With the European production ’Luther’ the filmmakers tried to bring history to life and tell the story of Martin Luther, one of the key reformers of Christianity in the 1500s. What started with disdain for the exploitation of its followers, Martin [...]
Though not a real Western fan, every once in a while I do enjoy films from this genre and then they remind me just how much I liked these films when I was younger. They really do have something and John Sturges’ "Last Train From Gun Hill" is [...]
Goldie Hawn plays Gloria Mundy in this comedy thriller, a beautiful librarian who gets mixed up in a scheme of murder and death. For reasons unknown to her she becomes the target of hitmen and after seeing to men keel over dead in front of her and their [...]
