Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
The Naked Edge (1961)
Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime.
Psychological thriller has some good Noir
cinematography, but its narrative is full of loopholes and unnecessary
twists so that its suspense is limited.
Halliwell (no star): "Dreary thriller which piles up red herrings in shoals, then abandons them all for a razor-and-bathroom finale."
Maltin**1/2: "Uneven suspenser..."
Monday, July 12, 2021
Sunday, July 11, 2021
Murder Among the Mormons (2021)
High-stakes exploits turn deadly - and shake a global church to it's core - in the extraordinary true crime story.
This documentary benefits from the truly rich case it shines a light upon with a lot of colorful participants, bomb assassinations, forgery of historical documents resulting in the rewriting of an already dubious sect history and the incredulous machinations of that sect itself.
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