Shoot the Glass

Oooh, fun, another heist movie. I do so love a good heist movie. This reminded me a lot of another heist movie I saw recently: The Killing (read my review). It has some similar elements, and I enjoyed them both immensely.
Here, we get to meet Tony le Stéphanois (Jean Servais), just out of prison. He [...]

Three weeks ago, I had no idea who Henri-Georges Clouzot was. Now, I’ve seen two of his movies and both are masterpieces. He made this right after Le Salaire de la Peur (read my review), yet it’s an entirely different kind of movie.
Unlike Le Salaire de la Peur, very little time is spent setting up [...]

Ace in the Hole is a less well-known movie by Billy Wilder, which was a complete flop at the box office when it opened in 1951.
Kirk Douglas plays Charlie Tatum, a former big city reporter, who is something of a trouble-maker and keeps getting fired from all the big papers for various reasons. He ends [...]

Wow. Giulietta Masina gives one of the best performances I have ever seen in this movie. Her face is so expressive, and she gets all the feelings across with pitch-perfect subtlety.
But I shouldn’t get ahead of myself. This movie is about Maria ‘Cabiria’ Ceccarelli (Masina), a prostitute in Rome. She so desperately wants to find [...]

If you know anything about me, you’ll already be aware that I love mysteries. I devour crime novels and love a good thriller movie. I especially adore Agatha Christie; she’s just so fun and light-hearted in those murky murder mysteries of hers. And from the start, it’s obvious she wrote this.
We meet Leonard Steven Vole [...]