Dir: Steven Okazaki | Wri: Stuart Galbraith IV, Steven Okazaki | With: Wataru Akashi, Kyôko Kagawa, Takeshi Katô, Hisao Kurosawa, Shirô Mifune | 77' Doc Mifune: The Last Samurai shines a light...

Dir: Dino Risi | Alberto Sordi, Lea Massari, Franco Fabrizi, Lina Volonghi | Italy, Drama 118' Lake Como, Northern Italy, 1944. Partisan Sordi on the run from the Germans, is sheltered, nursed...

Dir.: Akira Kurosawa; Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyö, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimra, Minoru Chiaki, Kichijioru Ueda; Japan 1950; 88 min. From Agatha Christie to Patricia Highsmith modern literature is fraught with...

With temperatures this Christmas dipping to -18 in parts of Scotland, Richard Chatten reflects back on Britain's Big Freeze of 1963 and the films that were on in the cinema...

Dir: Lili Fini Zanuck | Writers: Stephen "Scooter" Weintraub, Larry Yelen | Music Biopic | 213' Fans of Eric Clapton will certainly know the facts behind the ’god of guitar's’ eventful life....

Dir.: Bela Tarr; Cast: Mihaly Vig, Istvan Horvath, Erika Bök, Peter Berling, Miklos B. Szekely, Laszlo Fe Lugossy, Eva Almassi Albert, Alfred Jaray, Erzsebet Gaal, Janos Derzsi, Iren Szajki; Hungary/Germany/Switzerland...

The Critics’ top 20 Greatest Films of All Time are:  1       Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975) 2       Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) 3       Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) 4       Tokyo Story (Ozu Yasujiro, 1953) 5       In the...

Dir: Sam Latzman, Fred Sears | US Horror This quickie by Sam Katzman & Fred Sears brings the legend up to date by setting it in a very contemporary world of...

Dir.: Jacques Becker; Cast: Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin, Raymond Brussieres, William Sabatier; France 1952, 94 min. French director/co-writer Jacques Becker (1906-1960) is relatively unknown outside France, his early death...