The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

When a journalist is murdered in Berlin, there is reason to ask oneself: has a long gone villain resurfaced? Fritz Lang’s last picture is a fitting end to a career…

Murder Is Easy

In the early 1950s, a young Nigerian attaché (David Jonsson) on his way to Whitehall runs into an elderly woman (Penelope Wilton) who tells him about her village where she…

Lost Highway

L.A. jazz musician Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) and his wife (Patricia Arquette) start receiving mysterious VHS tapes that prove someone is watching them… A film that has gained a cult…

A Haunting in Venice

Venice, 1947; Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) is enjoying his retirement when a friend (Tina Fey) of his draws him into a murder mystery involving a medium (Michelle Yeoh). Branagh’s third…

Sorcerer: Calamity in Colombia

Photo: Paramount The premiere of Sorcerer, a remake of the equally excellent Wages of Fear (1954), was marred by a troubled production in the jungles of the Dominican Republic, bloated…

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler: Weimar’s Woes

Photo: Universum Film In 1922, two extraordinary films came out of the Weimar Republic. One was an influential horror movie, Nosferatu, an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s ”Dracula”. The other one…

Scarface: Ruling the Underworld

Paul Muni. Photo: United Artists The film begins with a stern warning, an indictment of gang rule in America and the government that does too little to stop it. The…

Boy from Heaven

Young Adam (Tawfeek Barhom), the son of a fisherman, goes to the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo to study, but is soon drawn into a murder investigation. The director’s best…

Westworld

What became an exciting thriller by Michael Crichton in 1973 was turned into a far more ambitious but also convoluted TV series, set in the 2050s where a corporation is…