March 31, 2008 Red Road Red Road is a much heralded 2006 British thriller – or thriller of a kind – directed by Andrea Arnold, who won an Oscar…
March 10, 2008 The River King The River King is a very different type of contemporary thriller to Killing Me Softly; clever, subdued, atmospheric and very, very cinematic. Also, strangely,…
March 10, 2008 Killing Me Softly Killing Me Softly is a cheesy British thriller based on a second rate novel by second rate author Nicci French. Not that I’m necessarily…
February 18, 2008 Sugar Colt There were an awful lot of correlations between the Spaghetti Western and the Spy Genre: They both came about at roughly the same time…
February 18, 2008 Mission Bloody Mary Mission Bloody Mary marked the first appearence of Ken Clark as Dick Malloy, aka Agent 077, one of the key eurospy characters to follow…
February 11, 2008 Night of the Sunfolowers Night of the Sunflowers is an excellent Spanish thriller directed with some class by the debuatant Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo, who made some acclaimed shorts back…
February 8, 2008 Il Bidone Il bidone was Federico Fellini’s direct follow up to La strada, and forms a neat quartet with I vitelloni (53) and Le notti de…