Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 23, 2019

One of the most ingenious and satisfying novels I’ve read in years, this plays with the tropes of the Golden Age Detection novel (murder during a weekend country house party in roughly the Gosford Park era) to produce something that’s arguably a meditation on the human condition . . . a   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on February 28, 2019

Although the critics were in general less than impressed by it, I much enjoyed Otto Preminger’s 1965 creepy psychological thriller BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING, with Carol Lynley, Laurence Olivier, Keir Dulleia, Martita Hunt, Noel Coward and all. I’m not sure why I’ve left it so long to   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day Jr. on July 13, 2013

Evelyn Ankers & Lon Chaney Jr. represent one of the most unusual Dynamic Duos in Classic Film. They appeared together in a number of thrillers made by Universal Studios in the 1940s. Both of them starred in many other Universal monster movies throughout the decade, and they are generally conside   read more