Classic Movie Ramblings

Speedy , released in 1928, was Harold Lloyd’s last silent feature film (he would go on to make several sound features).  Although released b...

For various peculiar reasons I missed out on seeing almost all the big hit movies of the 80s. In the past few years I’ve been slowly rectify...

Legend is a 1985 fantasy film directed by Ridley Scott and it seems to be almost a forgotten movie. This is old school fantasy, not just in...

Le Désordre et la nuit (literal translation is The Disorder and the Night ) is a French crime thriller directed by Gilles Grangier and rele...

Saraband for Dead Lovers is a 1948 British adventure romance movie based on a 1935 novel by Australian writer Helen Simpson. It was made by...

Everybody knows that La Dolce Vita is Fellini’s masterpiece and one of the greatest movies ever made. But is everybody right about that? Th...

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...