With television still being new to the world, one man has discovered a way to send a television signal all across the world nearly instantaneously and as such, there are those that […]
Quaint, Yet Forgettable – Murder By Television (1935)
A Thumb, a Gun and Bad Intentions – The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
The Hitch-Hiker, like many movies before and after it, is based upon real-world events, specifically the story of killer Billy Cook. It stars William Tallman as sociopath Emmett Myers who has been […]
One Body is… – One Body Too Many (1944)
One Body Too Many is a mystery film with some comedy and horror thrown in for good measure and while it is never all that bad, it is not a film that […]
Four Colour Thoughts – Nancy Drew #1
The Creators – Kelly Thompson – Writer, Jenn St-Onge – Artist, Triona Farrell – Colours, Ariana Maher – Letters The Players – Nancy Drew, Frank Hardy, Joe Hardy, Bess Marvin, George Fayne […]
Treachery and Treason in… – Hell’s Half Acre (1954)
A man is accused of a murder he did not commit while half a country away, a woman hears his voice on a record and believes it is her husband, long-dead from […]
Deceit and Betrayal on… – Hell’s Island (1955)
Hell’s Island is a film noir filmed in VistaVision, a statement that seems utterly ridiculous but with the advent of television during the 1950’s, colour was apparently all the rage and as […]
A Return Stay is Out of the Question – Girl in Room 2A (1974)
One has to wonder just what it is that makes a person want to stay in a place that makes them not only uncomfortable, but truly frightened. Is it obligation, a fear […]
Problems With Memory and Murder – Two O’Clock Courage (1945)
Two O’Clock Courage is a film noir about a man with amnesia and a dead body that is inexplicably tied to him. Running into a female cabbie, she decides to help the […]
One Little… – Smile Before Death (1972)
Silvio Amadio’s Smile Before Death, of which he both wrote with Francesco Villa and directed, is perhaps not the most exciting giallo to come along, but it is an interesting one. It […]
Not All As It Seems – The Good Neighbor (2016)
Humans are curious creatures, always wanting to know what their friends or co-workers or even strangers are up to. That curiosity can account for the rise in popularity of reality television, the […]
