12 ANGRY MEN (1957)
Most of the jurors in a murder trial want to convict the defendant and go home... but a single hold-out tries to change their minds.
WRITTEN ON THE WIND (1956)
Alcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley marries the woman secretly loved by his poor but hard-working best friend, who in turn is pursued by Kyle's nymphomaniac sister.
THE GENTLE GUNMAN (1952)
Two IRA men operating in England during WWII disagree on whether they should be bombing the British.
WILD STRAWBERRIES (1957)
After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.
THE SUN SHINES BRIGHT (1953)
A small-town judge in the southern USA remembers his Civil War days fondly, but has many newer problems – including a lynch mob – to deal with
HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (1959)
A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.
Cold War Creatures (1955-57)
A review of Arrow Video's box-set 'Cold War Creatures' (Creature With the Atom Brain, The Werewolf, Zombies of Mora Tau, and The Giant Claw).
JOHNNY GUITAR (1954)
In the Old West, a female saloon owner’s former lover must return to gunslinging to defend her from a lynch mob.
ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955)
A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
THE INVISIBLE MAN APPEARS (1949) • THE INVISIBLE MAN vs. THE HUMAN FLY (1957)
Two unique Japanese riffs on H.G Wells’ classic character, also indebted to Universal’s iconic film series...
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956)
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.