culture Click-In Movies: Heat (1986) Cinephilia & Beyond Nick “Mex” Escalante is a former soldier of fortune who makes a living in Las Vegas as a bodyguard for hire, even though he labels his profession as a...
culture Click-In Movies: Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975) Cinephilia & Beyond Two young female hitchhikers kidnap an alcoholic driving instructor as part of their long-term scheme to reach New Orleans. What they didn't plan on...
culture Click-In Movies: Borsalino & Co. (1974) Cinephilia & Beyond Four years after Jacques Deray's gangster film "Borsalino" triumphed at the French box office and enjoyed big popularity across Europe, a sequel was born.
culture Click-In Movies: Three Men to Kill (1980) Cinephilia & Beyond Based on Jean-Patrick Manchette's 1976 novel "West Coast Blues" (or, in the original, "Le Petit Bleu de la cĂ´te ouest"), Jacques Deray's 1980 box office...
culture Click-In Movies: Barfly (1987) Cinephilia & Beyond It was 1987 when the film world first met a character by the name of Henry Chinaski, a loner alcoholic and short story writer based on legendary...
culture Click-In Movies: Borsalino (1970) Cinephilia & Beyond With a story based on the lives of real gangsters Paul Carbone (“the Emperor of Marseille”) and François Spirito, "Borsalino" is an excellent French...
culture Click-In Movies: Hennessy (1975) Cinephilia & Beyond Don Sharp, the Australian-born British filmmaker who’s probably most famous for the movies he made for Hammer in the sixties, made an excellent....
culture Click-In Movies: Birds of Prey (1973) Cinephilia & Beyond In 1973, American filmmaker William A. Graham directed a television film called "Birds of Prey". The action movie centers around former WWII fighter...
culture Murder In Mind Alan Glynn "Killer" Irish literary fiction from Flann O'Brien, John Banville, Patrick McCabe, Edna O'Brien and William Trevor.
culture Click-In Movies: Rider on the Rain (1970) Cinephilia & Beyond In 1970, filmmaker René Clément directed the French mystery thriller "Le Passager de la pluie"  ("Rider on the Rain") starring Charles Bronson and...
culture Click-In Movies: Rogue Male (1976) Cinephilia & Beyond British novelist Geoffrey Household’s 1939 thriller novel  "Rogue Male" got two cinematic adaptations over the course of the 20th century. The first was...
culture Click-In Movies: Death Game (1977) Cinephilia & Beyond The 1977 erotic thriller "Death Game" follows George Manning (Seymour Cassel), a happily married father who finds himself alone in his home on his 40th...