'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

Dream Lover  is a thriller written and directed by Nicholas Kazan (son of the legendary director Elia Kazan, and himself an Academy Award no...

The first Crime Dossier created by Dennis Wheatley and J.G. Links was Murder off Miami (in the US, File on Bolitho Blane ) and it proved to ...

Cellar Door is a fairly recent American film which takes a situation with a number of rather familiar ingredients and and manages to make s...

I vividly remember reading H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, aged about 12 or 13, after borrowing the book from my school library. I wa...

No 'Friday Forgotten Book' today, because I want to pay a personal tribute to my brother-in-law Andrew Shanks, who died on Tuesday. ...

  I'm just back from a lovely trip to the Scottish Isles, which although overshadowed by other things, provided a scenic reminder of jus...

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Paul Winterton, himself the son of a journalist who had briefly been a Labour MP, had a successful career in Fleet Street (though he was rat...

With most films, I don't find it too difficult to make up my mind about whether I enjoyed them or not. The other day, for instance, I wa...

No Country for Old Men , which takes its title from a line in a poem by W.B. Yeats, is a Coen brothers film based on a novel by Cormac McCar...