We look at the stellar career of the late William Friedkin and in particular his underappreciated masterpiece, Sorcerer… William Friedkin has sadly passed away but left behind a resume filled with masterful cinema including several films which redefined genres. When it comes to cinema, there are some filmmakers who have never quite had the level […]
1971: Bleak, Uncompromising, Groundbreaking Violence in Cinema
Tom Jolliffe ventures back to 1971, a year full of gritty, hard hitting and iconic crime films… Does 1971 seem that long ago? Well guess what… It’s half a century ago. Looking back at the year in movies shows an array of trailblazing cinema, punctuated by a fascination in pessimism, gritty violence and uncompromising meanness. […]
