Barbara Stanwyck plays a woman who is dying which is never easy, whether one knows about it or not. Planning for the future, much less having a future, is almost impossible to […]
To Live and To Love – The Other Love (1947)
Love that Wounds – East Side, West Side (1949)
Betrayal at the hands of a loved one is never easy, much less forgiving them and yet, that is exactly what Jessie Bourne did when her husband cheated on her. Love it […]
To Do What She Must – No Man of Her Own (1950)
No Man of Her Own, a film that is more drama than noir and starring Barbara Stanwyck, finds her playing a single woman who is pregnant and heading home on the train […]
Home is Where the Heart Is – All I Desire (1953)
All I Desire stars Barbara Stanwyck in fine form as a woman who, after leaving her family ten years earlier in a bid to make it big and escape the small town […]
A Bloody Trail – Tower of London (1939)
While there are certainly overtones of horror throughout the film, Tower of London is more of a historical drama than anything else with a little bit of action interspersed throughout. That is […]
Making it Through – Upstate Story (2018)
Upstate Story is not going to be everyone’s cup of tea, whether it was the choice to film in black and white or the fact that it is as far away from […]
Good Advice – Don’t Gamble With Strangers (1946)
Every now and then, Monogram Pictures would release something of note, but for the most part, their films were simply all right when it was all said and done and Don’t Gamble […]
Enemies Bound On A… – Night Train to Munich (1940)
Night Train to Munich is a World War II thriller released in 1940 that takes place just as the war is breaking out and the lines between Ally and enemy are just […]
Refusing to Stay Down – Iron Man (1951)
Jeff Chandler stars in Iron Man, a 1951 motion picture about a man who wants more out of life, but is unsure as to what that is. Working in a coal mine […]
It’s a Small World… – Downsizing (2017)
Downsizing is a pre-apocalyptic film starring Matt Damon who is shrunk down to minuscule size in order to prevent extreme climate change in the form of the next ice age. To be […]
The Telltale Mind 