Night and the City (1950)
“Harry, do you know what you’re doing? You’re killing me. You’re killing me and yourself.” Sleaze oozes out of every pore of this film noir classic, which was directed by…
“Harry, do you know what you’re doing? You’re killing me. You’re killing me and yourself.” Sleaze oozes out of every pore of this film noir classic, which was directed by…
“Who’s winning?” … “Nobody. One side is just losing slower than the other.” An unfairly neglected “neo-noir” thriller full of post-Watergate era angst, Night Moves stars Gene Hackman as former…
“Sensual ecstasy becomes supernatural terror!” Dennis Hopper turns in a surprisingly restrained performance in this nice low-budget atmospheric thriller directed by Curtis Harrington. Hopper portrays “Johnny Drake,” a sailor on…
“Nice place. I’ll try not to bleed over everything.” Okay, so the Nightfall poster exuded hyperbole when it screamed “YOU COULD GO TO THE MOVIES EVERY DAY FOR FIVE YEARS…
“There are worse things than murder. You can kill someone an inch at a time.” A relatively unknown film noir gem, 99 River Street stars John Payne (Miracle on 34th…
“Where is it written you gotta be happy all the time?” I always find it enjoyable to watch the personal, low-budget films of Edward Burns and enter a familiar world…
“It was the last thing on earth they ever expected.” Feeling nostalgic about the ‘80s? Get a quick fix by watching Night of the Comet, a highly entertaining sci-fi horror…
“Remember what I’ve always told you: The wages of sin is gonorrhea, syphilis and death.” A grave robber, necrophile and serial killer, “Ezra Cobb” (Roberts Blossom) isn’t exactly the life…
“Man, she looked like she had been thrown off the crummiest freight train in the world.” Down-and out piano player "Al Roberts" (Tom Neal) is the kind of perennial loser…
“As a singer, he’s a killer. As a lover, he’s a killer. As a killer, he’s a lovely singer.” In this guilty pleasure directed by Jeff Werner, cabbie and aspiring…