Intriguing crime story, got me interested.
Friday, 3 June 2016
Sorte kugler (2009)
A bitter and stressed man ends up in a car crash and gets another chance for life.
Deliberately shrill comedy which entertains quite well, if you can take this kind of offbeat humor.
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
Trent's Last Case (1952)
When a wealthy business man is found dead, a reporter is sent to investigate.
Tuesday, 31 May 2016
Stalag 17 (1953)
When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German POW camp barracks black marketeer is suspected of being an informer.
A typical Billy Wilder mixture of humor and drama, an ensemble piece, highly entertaining, but politically a bit dubious, if not dated.
Halliwell**: "High jinks, violence and mystery in a sharply calculated mixture; an atmosphere quite different from the understated British films on the subject."
Maltin****: "The pinnacle of all WW2 POW films...Wilder brilliantly blends drama with comedy to show monotonous, anxiety-ridden life of POWs."
When the Earth Cracked Open
A Hammer Horror movie that never was realized, cover girl seems to be Caroline Munro.
Blow Out (1981)
A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.
Classic Brian De Palma thriller with an abundance of cinematic allusions, top-notch in all departments, but, this time around, not quite as suspenseful.
Halliwell (no star): "Showily unpleasant thriller concocted of equal parts of The Conversation, Blow Up, and Kennedy at Chappaquiddik; the work of a copycat talent operating below par."
Maltin**1/2: "Intriguing variation on Antonioni's BLOWUP...Absorbing most of the way, but weakened by show-off camerawork and logic loop-holes."
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