We continue our season-long member bonus Roger Corman series with a look at one of the eight Edgar Allan Poe adaptions he did with American International Pictures, their incredibly successful film The Pit and the Pendulum.
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We return to our ‘Spoiled. Rotten? Twist Endings’ series with a film that certainly lives up to the idea of having plenty of twists and turns. We’re talking about Wolfgang Petersen’s 1991 film Shattered.
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We wrap up our 1968 Crime Films series with a conversation about Anthony Mann’s final film, A Dandy in Aspic, in which Laurence Harvey plays a double agent hired by one side to kill his other side’s alter ego.
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We continue our 1968 Crime Films series with a heist film that goes awry when the stolen money disappears. Plus, it’s got a fantastic cast! It’s Gordon Flemyng’s film The Split.
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We return to our 1968 Crime Films series with a wild cinematic experience that’s more fiction than fact in its portrayal of real events, but still an awesome film to check out. It’s Richard Fleischer’s film starring Tony Curtis as ‘The Boston Strangler.’
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We end our heist film series with what’s advertised as ‘Rififi in Rio’, a film that sets our criminals stealing $10 million in diamonds during the Carnaval parade in Rio de Janeiro. It’s Giuliano Montaldo’s 1967 film ‘Grand Slam.’
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We continue our Roger Corman member bonus series with a look at the film he produced for first-time director Paul Bartel, a bloody comedy satire on politics, fandom, the media, and of course killer car races – it’s the 1975 film Death Race 2000.
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We continue our heist films series with Vittorio de Sica’s move away from his neorealist films with a Neil Simon-written heist comedy starring Peter Sellers as a thief who poses as a film director to pull of a job – it’s the 1966 film “After the Fox.”
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We kick off our return to our heist series with a story about British military veterans who decide to pull of a thrilling bank robbery. It’s Basil Dearden’s 1960 film “The League of Gentlemen.”
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We wrap up this round of our Jack Ryan series with another switch in the title character as well as a reboot to the franchise. It’s time to look at Phil Alden Robinson’s 2002 film starring Ben Affleck as Ryan, “The Sum of All Fears.”
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