Classic Movie Ramblings

Straw Dogs is Sam Peckinpah’s most controversial film and in its day it was very controversial indeed. Modern audiences are likely to be fa...

Junior Bonner is a 1972 Sam Peckinpah movie and although it has a contemporary setting it is a western of sorts. It’s a movie about the Wes...

While I’ve never been much of a fan of David Lean’s later grandiose films I did enjoy Brief Encounter and had heard glowing reports of his 1...

The Rhine Virgin ( La vierge du Rhin ), directed by Gilles Grangier and released in 1953, is included in the recent Kino Lorber French Noir ...

The Great Train Robbery was written and directed by Michael Crichton, based on his own novel. It was shot in England and financed by Dino d...

The Hot Spot is a very very interesting 1990 neo-noir erotic thriller directed by Dennis Hopper. It starts like a western. Harry Madox (Don...

The Sin of Nora Moran is a pre-code melodrama made by Majestic Pictures in 1933. As the movie opens Nora Moran (Zita Johann) is awaiting ex...