Mini-Review: Surprisingly sophisticated, not only in its forward-thinking attitude towards homosexuality, but also in the subtle way it gets the message across. Bogarde gives a particularly nuanced performance; understated and quietly powerful, leaving the audience in no doubt about the inner conflicts his character is facing.

Mini-Review: Big mansions, stormy nights, hidden secrets, tragic pasts - all the ingredients you'd expect to find in this type of gothic melodrama. Vincent Price is great, and the story has some depth with the class critique and the dysfunctional marriage, but it never really goes anywhere you don't expect and ends up feeling a bit flat and predictable. I thought it was a shame the sub-plot with the young daughter gets totally forgotten half way through the film, because that had some potential.

Mini-Review: One beautifully composed death scene does not compensate for an otherwise tedious affair. The story is completely without focus, Stafford is like a charisma-free Sean Connery clone and there is no tension or suspense anywhere to be found. The worst thing is that I spent 135 minutes at least hoping that Hitch would pull off one of his trademark exciting endings... boy, was I disappointed.

Mini-Review: The trouble with this is that it's not exciting enough to be an enjoyable adventure film, but nor is the relationship between the man and boy explored enough to make it a character study of any great insight. Occasionally the story starts to head in an interesting direction, but then it just meanders off somewhere else leaving a lot of loose ends. Disappointing.

Mini-Review: Intense morality play with a terrific ensemble cast. The central story with Kirk Douglas and his wife is never anything less than engrossing, but what I really liked about this were all the small side-stories that illustrated the day-to-day goings-on in a police station. Each character is fully fleshed-out and there's some great acting from the likes of William Bendix, Lee Grant (who adds some comic relief) and Joseph Wiseman (who plays an amazingly manic burglar).