Shoot the Glass

If it hadn’t been for the IMDb Top 250 list, I doubt I would have heard of this movie. It seems to have gotten lost in time somehow, perhaps because it’s not quite a western, not quite a noir. But believe me, it’s excellent.
Two men come to a town where news are spreading that a [...]

David Lean is one of my very favourite directors. He has made some spectacular epic adventures which I adore, but this was a new side to him.
Brief Encounter is about two people called Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) and Dr. Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard) who meet by chance at a railway station. They become friendly and [...]

This was the most entertaining movie I’ve seen in a while. It’s a classic British film by Ealing Studios, and I liked it better even than The Ladykillers.
It tells the story of a man called Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price), whose mother belonged to the aristocratic family D’Ascoyne, but was shunned after she married an Italian [...]

I must admire Charlie Chaplin. This movie, in which he mocks Hitler and the Nazis (as well as Mussolini), came out as early as 1940. According to IMDb, Chaplin said that had he known the true extent of Nazi atrocities, he “could not have made fun of their homicidal insanity”. Still, it was brave at [...]

The Best Years of Our Lives tells the story of three World War II servicemen returning home and trying to readjust to their new lives. We follow these three men as they try to come to terms with their wartime experiences, readjust to society, and reconcile their past with their new reality.
Al Stephenson (Fredric [...]