Month: July 2015

Update on New Line’s Shaft reboot… a comedy !!!???

According to a report today states that New Line intend to have a “much more comedic tone” to their Shaft reboot, bringing on board writers Kenya Barris and Alex Barnow. This is a huge disappointment to fans of the character who had hoped for a treatment sympathetic to Ernest Tidyman’s creation. David F Walker, who made Shaft’s…

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Film Review – STARDUST (1974)

Stardust (1974; UK; Technicolor; 111m) ∗∗∗½  d. Michael Apted; w. Ray Connolly; ph. Anthony B. Richmond; m. Dave Edmunds, David Puttnam (music producers).  Cast: David Essex, Adam Faith, Larry Hagman, Ines des Longchamps, Rosalind Ayres, Marty Wilde, Edd Byrnes, Keith Moon, Dave Edmunds, Paul Nicholas, Karl Howman, Richard LeParmentier, Peter Duncan, John Normington, James Hazeldine….

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Film Review – THAT’LL BE THE DAY (1973)

That’ll Be the Day (1973; UK; Technicolor; 91m) ∗∗∗  d. Claude Watham; w. Ray Connolly; ph. Peter Suschitzky; m. Neil Aspinall, Keith Moon (music supervisors).  Cast: David Essex, Ringo Starr, Rosemary Leach, James Booth, Billy Fury, Keith Moon, Rosalind Ayres, Brenda Bruce, Robert Lindsay, Verna Harvey, James Ottaway, Deborah Watling, Beth Morris, Daphne Oxenford, Kim…

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Film Review – SHENANDOAH (1965)

Shenandoah (1965; USA; Technicolor; 105m) ∗∗∗∗  d. Andrew V. McLaglen; w. James Lee Barrett; ph. William H. Clothier; m. Frank Skinner.  Cast: James Stewart, Rosemary Forsyth, Doug McClure, Katharine Ross, George Kennedy, Patrick Wayne, Strother Martin, Glenn Corbett, Philip Alford, Charles Robinson, Denver Pyle, Charles Robinson, Gene Jackson, Tim McIntire, Jim McMullan. A farmer in…

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Film Review – RED (2010)

RED (2010; USA; DeLuxe; 111m) ∗∗  d. Robert Schwentke; w. Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber; ph. Florian Ballhaus; m. Christophe Beck.  Cast: Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban, Mary-Louise Parker, Brian Cox, Richard Dreyfuss, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ernest Borgnine, James Remar, Julian McMahon. When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin,…

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Film Review – SANTA FE (1951)

Santa Fe (1951; USA; Technicolor; 87m) ∗∗½  d. Irving Pichel; w. Kenneth Gamet, Louis Stevens; ph. Charles Lawton Jr.; m. Paul Sawtell.  Cast: Randolph Scott, Janis Carter, Jerome Courtland, Peter M. Thompson, John Archer, Warner Anderson, Roy Roberts, Billy House, Olin Howland, Allene Roberts, Jock Mahoney. After the Civil War four brothers who fought for…

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Film Review – TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY (1991)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991; USA; Technicolor; 137m) ∗∗∗∗½  d. James Cameron; w. James Cameron, William Wisher Jr.; ph. Adam Greenberg; m. Brad Fiedel.  Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Edward Furlong, Earl Boen, Joe Morton, Xander Berkeley, Jenette Goldstein, S. Epatha Merkerson, Castulo Guerra, Danny Cooksey, Leslie Hamilton Gearren, Peter Schrum, Ken Gibbel, Robert…

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Doctor Who Retrospective – 1.11 BOOM TOWN

BOOM TOWN 1 episode / 44m / 4 June 2005 Rating: ∗∗½ Writer: Russell T Davies Director: Joe Ahearne Cast: Christopher Eccleston (Doctor Who), Billie Piper (Rose Tyler), William Thomas (Mr Cleaver), Annette Badland (Margaret), John Barrowman (Captain Jack), Noel Clarke (Mickey), Mali Harries (Cathy), Aled Pedrick (Idris Hopper), Alan Ruscoe (Slitheen). Plot: The TARDIS crew take a holiday, but…

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