When piano man Al Roberts (Tom Neal) gets the news that his best girl Sue Harvey (Claudia Drake) wants to ditch NYC for LA, all the dreams he’d been building up in his head vanish in a puff of smoke. No more getting married and settling down in The City for him. Instead, he’s lost […]
Read more "The Doomed Travel Slowly: Detour (1945)"Due to a history with aggressive tactics against “upstanding” citizens like gangster Tommy Scalise (Gary Merrill), Detective Mark Dixon (Dana Andrews) has been busted back to Detective 1st Grade. If he continues down this path, he is bound to get demoted back to beat cop. His commander, Inspector Nicholas Foley (Robert F. Simon), cannot figure […]
Read more "Down These Mean Streets: Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)"Although he’s mired in putting together a concerto for the lovely and talented Barbara Chapman (Faye Marlowe), composer George Harvey Bone (Laird Cregar) finds all too easy distraction from that work when he encounters a jingleman Mickey (Michael Dyne) and the gorgeous singer Netta Longdon (Linda Darnell). Caught between his love for music and his […]
Read more "Blackouts and Blacker Moods: Hangover Square (1945)"Olivia Harwood (Ann Todd) lost her husband in Jamaica where they had gone to serve as missionaries. On the ride back to England, she encounters a sympathetic ear in Mark Bellis (Ray Milland), who shares her disappointments and resentment for recent events. When she gets back to her own lands, forced to rent out rooms […]
Read more "Falling Under Love’s Sway: So Evil My Love (1948)"When buddies Roy Collins (Edmond O’Brien) and Gilbert Bowen (Frank Lovejoy) spy the stranger by the car pulled off the side of the road, they ask if he’s run out of gas. He sure has. The two men are on a pleasure trip, either fishing or some other pastime, so they offer to let the […]
Read more "A Man and a Gun and a Car: The Hitch-Hiker (1953)"When their son moves out of the house following a squabble, Philip Marshall (Charles Laughton) takes the much longed for chance to put a little distance between himself and his wife as well. Cora (Rosalind Ivan) has plenty to say about the idea of a husband sleeping in a room across the hall from their […]
Read more "A Murderer With Decency: The Suspect (1944)"The erotic thriller turned into a huge industry by the 1990s, giving numerous actors a start in the business and giving established ones a chance to break character and add a little danger and flare to their images. We Kill for Love: The Lost World of the Erotic Thriller (2023) is a documentary tracing the […]
Read more "Doomed Romances: We Kill For Love (2023)"Summer Elswick (Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz) is a good saleswoman and potent realtor. Working for her boyfriend Will Grady (Justin Timberlake) and his mother Camille Grady (Frances Fisher) has opened up plenty of doors, netted her numerous sales, and unknown to just about everyone it has made her a target. So, it is a terrible […]
Read more "A Good Cop Does Not Mean One Insanely Dedicated to Their Job: Reptile (2023)"When you need something delivered, call a courier like Johnny (Keanu Reeves). He’s got an 80 GB processor in his head, which can be doubled to fit your data needs. Unfortunately for Johnny, his handler Ralfi (Udo Kier) has gotten him a job that requires 320 GB. Well, he’ll take it anyway, despite the threat […]
Read more "I Gotta Get This Outta My Head: Johnny Mnemonic in Black and White"Wanting to get a few things off his chest before he heads into certain doom, Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) summons the one good cop he knows to his lousy room at the flea-bitten hotel where he’s knocking around. As soon as he gets there, Lieutenant Nulty (John Ireland) wants to know if Moose Malloy (Jack […]
Read more "Feeling Marlowe: Farewell, My Lovely (1975)"
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