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Bookended Brilliance: Directors with Great First and Last Films

November 2, 2025 by Tom Jolliffe

Plenty of directors have started with a great film or ended with one. But which directors had a stunning debut and an immense final film? We take a look at four contenders… Every director starts somewhere, and most undoubtedly strive to stand out in their field. Many an iconic director has begun in earnest and […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: 12 Angry Men, Andrei Tarkovsky, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Confidentially Yours, Francois Truffaut, Ivan's Childhood, Sidney Lumet, The 400 Blows, The Sacrifice

Ten Essential Films of the 1950s

September 17, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

It’s time to look at ten essential films of the 1950s… Quentin Tarantino has never been shy about expressing his opinions on cinema. He once claimed that the two weakest decades in cinema were the 50s and 80s. Sure, Tarantino directed Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, but I’m still going to disagree.  The 80s were […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe, Top Stories Tagged With: 12 Angry Men, A Streetcar Named Desire, Alice In Wonderland, All About Eve, Animal Farm, Dracula, Godzilla, Les Diaboliques, Night and the City, Night of the Hunter, north by northwest, On the Waterfront, Paths of Glory, Rebel Without a Cause, Seven Samurai, Singing in the Rain, Some Like It Hot, Sunset Boulevard, The 400 Blows, the 7th voyage of sinbad, The Big Heat, The Hitch-Hiker, The Killing, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Searchers, The Wages of Fear, Tokyo Story, Touch of Evil, War of the Worlds, Wild Strawberries

Movie Review – The 400 Blows (4K Remaster)

January 15, 2022 by Chris Connor

The 400 Blows, 1959. Directed by Francois Truffaut. Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier, Patrick Auffay. SYNOPSIS: A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime. Alongside the likes of Jean Luc Godard, Jaques Demy and Jean Pierre-Melville, François Truffaut was one of the pioneers of the French New Wave […]

Filed Under: Chris Connor, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick Auffay, The 400 Blows

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