A collection of above-average made-for-TV movies from the 1970s.
Tag: thriller
The Fight Club: Announcing The London Action Film Festival
Fans of shoot-ups, fist-fights and general on-screen chaos now have their very own film festival.
Noirvember: The Last Seduction
Sex, crime and double-crosses galore in the classic 1994 neo-noir.
Noirvember: Walk A Tightrope
Continuing our crime cinema series with an unexpectedly gritty and twisted British B-movie thriller from the 1960s.
Noirvember: An Introduction
Setting the scene for our month of Film Noir reviews – and explaining why we are refusing to take a narrow view of just what ‘noir’ is.
Man Vs Machine: The Relentless Intensity Of Duel
Steven Spielberg’s debut feature, and the Richard Matheson short story that it is based on, remain masterclasses in paranoid terror.
Raindance 2020: The Woman With Leopard Shoes
An impressively old-school yet very modern crime thriller that keeps you guessing throughout its many twists and turns.
Guns And Noodles: Blood Simple, Chinese Style
The unlikely Chinese remake of the Coen Brothers’ noir classic is better than you may have been led to believe.
An Afternoon Of Slaughter
A rare cinematic celebration of the king of the melodrama, Tod Slaughter.
An Invitation That’s Easy To Refuse
Karyn Kusama’s plodding paranoid religious cult thriller is an example of more being decidedly less.
