Gorillas in the Mist (1988)
If you never heard of Dian Fossey, Michael Apted’s Gorillas in the Mist makes a great introduction to her work in studying and protecting the…
Author: Ernest Dempsey
Blindness (2008)
Once in a while you come across a story with unnamed characters, making them just people or representatives of the human race. Blindness by Brazilian…
SpaceCamp (1986)
When ABC Motion Pictures produced SpaceCamp, released in 1986, the nationwide fascination in America with all things space was at its peak. Alien and E.T.…
Drive a Crooked Road (1954)
James Benson Nablo’s story “The Wheel Man” was adapted into the screenplay by Blake Edwards and Richard Quine for the classic noir Drive a Crooked…
The Sword of Bushido (1990)
Calling Richard Norton a martial arts legend in the action cinema will be fair to his name and talent. Of the dozens of famous kickass…
From the Hip (1987)
In Bob Clark’s character-driven courtroom dramedy From the Hip (1987), the norms of a courtroom come under the hammer – and it’s not the gavel…
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The sole directorial film work of actor Charles Laughton The Night of the Hunter is the movie that comes close to blurring a critic’s vision,…
The Island (2006) – Ostrov
Ever visited a place where guilt becomes a gift and the angels sing in unison to your soul? Pavel Lungin’s The Island (titled Ostrov in…
The Surgeon (1995) – Exquisite Tenderness
Medical horror is increasingly being recognized, unofficially, as a subgenre of horror since movies portraying scary medical procedures, psychopathic doctors, and other hospital-medicine themes have…
The Doctor and the Devils (1985)
Before the terror of Jack the Ripper in London, Edinburg (Scotland) witnessed a series of murders linked to one of the noblest professions – medicine.…