Logan’s Run (1976; USA; Metrocolor; 120m) ∗∗∗ d. Michael Anderson; w. David Zelag Goodman; ph. Ernest Laszlo; m. Jerry Goldsmith. Cast: Michael York, Richard Jordan, Peter Ustinov, Jenny Agutter, Roscoe Lee Browne, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Anderson Jr. An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: life must end at 30. Its basic anti-establishment premise is…
Month: January 2017
Film Review – EYE IN THE SKY (2015)
Eye in the Sky (2015; UK; Colour; 102m) ∗∗∗∗ d. Gavin Hood; w. Guy Hibbert; ph. Haris Zambarloukos; m. Paul Hepker, Mark Kilian. Cast: Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi, Jeremy Northam, Iain Glen, Phoebe Fox, Kim Engelbrecht, Meganne Young. A proposed UK drone strike against Al Shabaab militants is complicated when a…
Film Review – CAFE SOCIETY (2016)
Café Society (2016; USA; Colour; 96m) ∗∗∗ d. Woody Allen; w. Woody Allen; ph. Vittorio Storaro; m. Stewart Lerman (supervisor). Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell, Blake Lively, Parker Posey, Corey Stoll, Jeannie Berlin, Ken Stott, Anna Camp, Gregg Binkley, Paul Schneider, Sari Lennick, Stephen Kunken, Sheryl Lee. A young man from the Bronx…
Book Review – THE DARKEST GOODBYE (2016) by Alex Gray
THE DARKEST GOODBYE by ALEX GRAY (2016, Sphere, 456pp) ∗∗∗½ Blurb: When newly fledged DC Kirsty Wilson is called to the house of an elderly woman, what appears to be a death by natural causes soon takes a sinister turn when it is revealed that the woman had a mysterious visitor in the early hours of that…
Italian re-print of Shaft Among the Jews out now
BigSUR have followed up their reprint of Ernest Tidyman’s Shaft with his second book in the series Shaft Among the Jews. The Italian translation is by Ettore Capriolo and the book (ISBN: 978-88-6998-052-7) is now on sale at a price of € 15.00. SUR’s website also contains a link to a pdf extract from the novel.
Director assigned to Shaft reboot
After over a year of seeming inactivity, there is finally some forward momentum on New Line’s reboot of the Shaft franchise. Tim Story has been assigned as director to the production, which will be based on a script by Kenya Barris and Alex Barnow. Barris is also co-producer with John Davis and Ira Napoliello for Davis…
Film Review – A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SEX COMEDY (1982)
Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, A (1982; USA; Technicolor; 88m) ∗∗∗ d. Woody Allen; w. Woody Allen; ph. Gordon Willis. Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Jose Ferrer, Julie Hagerty, Mary Steenburgen, Tony Roberts, Michael Higgins, Timothy Jenkins, Adam Redfield, Moishe Rosenfeld, Sol Frieder, Boris Zoubok, Thomas Barbour, Kate McGregor-Stewart. A wacky inventor and his wife invite…
Film Review – WHITEOUT (2009)
Whiteout (2009; Canada/USA/France; Technicolor; 101m) ∗∗∗ d. Dominic Sena; w. Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber, Chad Hayes, Carey Hayes; ph. Christopher Soos; m. John Frizzell. Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht, Tom Skerritt, Columbus Short, Alex O’Loughlin, Shawn Doyle, Joel S. Keller, Jesse Todd, Arthur Holden, Erin Hickock, Bashar Rahal, Julian Cain, Dennis Keiffer, Andrei Runtso, Roman…
Book Review – THE HIGHWAYMAN (2016) by Craig Johnson
THE HIGHWAYMAN by CRAIG JOHNSON (2016, Viking, 194pp) ∗∗∗½ Blurb: When Wyoming highway patrolman Rosey Wayman is transferred to the beautiful and imposing landscape of the Wind River Canyon, an area the troopers refer to as no-man’s-land because of the lack of radio communication, she starts receiving officer needs assistance calls. The problem? They’re coming from Bobby…
Film Review – HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (1986)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986; USA; Technicolor; 103m) ∗∗∗∗∗ d. Woody Allen; w. Woody Allen; ph. Carlo Di Palma; m. Puccini. Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Michael Caine, Carrie Fisher, Barbara Hershey, Maureen O’Sullivan, Dianne Wiest, Max von Sydow, Lloyd Nolan, Daniel Stern, Julie Kavner, Joanna Gleason, J.T. Walsh, John Turturro, Richard Jenkins. Between two…