We continue our celebration of Noirvember with ten essential neo-noirs from the 1970s… From the dark nights to the damp rainy streets and glare of the neon lights, everything about November makes you feel like you’re living in a neo-noir movie. With Noirvember in full swing, it’s time to look at a golden era of […]
The Essential Donald Sutherland Films
With the sad news that the legendary Donald Sutherland has passed away, we look at eight essential Sutherland movies that you must see… Donald Sutherland was a fixture on the big screen for 60 years, remaining prolific even in recent years. The iconic actor left us at 88 years old and given his constant presence […]
10 Essential Private Eye Movies
Tom Jolliffe offers up 10 essential private investigator movies… The humble Dick. I mean P.I of course. Private Investigator. They often operate on a perilous high wire between law and unlawful. When the police have given up or are hamstrung by the book, the P.I can go that extra mile, or indeed focus entirely on […]
The Essential Missing Person Movies
Tom Jolliffe looks at 10 essential films about the search for a missing person… There are a number of sub-genres in the thriller and drama genre which I love. One such type, is the missing person film. A film which is driven by the search for the missing person(s). There have been many great films […]
Revisiting Klute: An Overlooked Masterpiece of Paranoia Cinema
Tom Jolliffe looks back at Alan J. Pakula’s Klute, an essential piece of 70’s paranoia cinema… Over the course of cinema history, there have been a number of great thrillers that amped up the tension and levels of paranoia. In American cinema, a prolific era was the 1970s. Deep into cold war paranoia, espionage and […]
