GET CARTER (1971, UK, 112m, 18) ***** Crime, Thriller dist. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (UK), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) / United Artists (USA); pr co. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios; d. Mike Hodges; w. Mike Hodges (based on the novel “Jack’s Return Home” by Ted Lewis); pr. Michael Klinger; ph. Wolfgang Suschitzky (Metrocolor | 1.85:1); m. Roy Budd; ed. John Trumper;…
Month: July 2017
Film Review – AIR FORCE ONE (1997)
Air Force One (1997; USA/Germany; Technicolor; 125m) *** d. Wolfgang Petersen; w. Andrew W. Marlowe; ph. Michael Ballhaus; m. Jerry Goldsmith. Cast: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Wendy Crewson, Liesel Matthews, Paul Guilfoyle, Glenn Close, Xander Berkeley, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell, Tom Everett, Jürgen Prochnow, Donna Bullock, Michael Ray Miller. Hijackers seize the plane carrying…
Film Review – THE WICKER MAN (1973)
Wicker Man, The (1973; UK; Eastmancolor; 95m) ****½ d. Robin Hardy; w. Anthony Shaffer; ph. Harry Waxman; m. Paul Giovanni. Cast: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt, Lindsay Kemp, Russell Waters, Aubrey Morris, Irene Sunters, Walter Carr, Ian Campbell, Leslie Blackater, Roy Boyd, Peter Brewis, Barbara Rafferty. A police sergeant is…
Film Review – THE SHALLOWS (2016)
Shallows, The (2016; USA; Colour; 86m) ***½ d. Jaume Collet-Serra; w. Anthony Jaswinski; ph. Flavio Martínez Labiano; m. Marco Beltrami. Cast: Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada, Brett Cullen, Sedona Legge, Janelle Bailey, Angelo Josue Lozano Corzo, José Manuel Trujillo Salas, Diego Espejel, Pablo Calva. A young surfer becomes trapped off shore when a great white shark…
Film Review – KONG: SKULL ISLAND (2017)
Kong: Skull Island (2017; USA; Colour; 118m) ***½ d. Jordan Vogt-Roberts; w. Dan Gilroy, Max Borenstein, Derek Connolly, John Gatins; ph. Larry Fong; m. Henry Jackman. Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, John C. Reilly, John Goodman, Corey Hawkins, John Ortiz, Tian Jing, Toby Kebbell, Jason Mitchell, Thomas Mann, Shea Whigham, Eugene Cordero,…
Film Review – THE CONCORDE… AIRPORT ’79 (1979)
Concorde … Airport ’79, The (1979; USA; Technicolor; 113m) * d. David Lowell Rich; w. Eric Roth, Jennings Lang; ph. Philip H. Lathrop; m. Lalo Schifrin. Cast: Alain Delon, Robert Wagner, Susan Blakely, George Kennedy, Sylvia Kristel, Eddie Albert, Bibi Andersson, Charo, Martha Raye, Cicely Tyson, John Davidson, Andrea Marcovicci, Jimmie Walker, David Warner, Mercedes…
Book Review – JACK CARTER’S LAW (1974) by Ted Lewis
JACK CARTER’S LAW by TED LEWIS (1974, Syndicate Books, 222pp) **** Blurb: It’s the late 1960s in London and Jack Carter is the top man in a crime syndicate headed by two brothers—Gerald and Les Fletcher. He’s also a worried man. The fact that he’s sleeping with Gerald’s wife, Audrey, and that they plan on someday…
Film Review – STORMY MONDAY (1988)
Stormy Monday (1988; UK/USA; Rankcolor; 93m) ***½ d. Mike Figgis; w. Mike Figgis; ph. Roger Deakins; m. Mike Figgis. Cast: Melanie Griffith, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting, Sean Bean, James Cosmo, Mark Long, Brian Lewis, Ying Tong John, Mick Hamer, Ian Hinchcliffe, Andrzej Borkowski, Caroline Hutchinson, Les Wilde, Desmond Gill, Benny Graham, Derek Hoxby, Catherine Chevalier,…
Film Review – NORTH SEA HIJACK (1980)
North Sea Hijack (1980; USA; Technicolor; 100m) ***½ d. Andrew V. McLaglen; w. Jack Davies; ph. Tony Imi; m. Michael J. Lewis. Cast: Roger Moore, James Mason, Anthony Perkins, Michael Parks, Faith Brook, Lea Brodie, David Hedison, Jack Watson, George Baker, Jeremy Clyde, David Wood, Philip O’Brien, Anthony Pullen Shaw, John Westbrook, Jennifer Hilary. When…
Film Review – SOYLENT GREEN (1973)
Soylent Green (1973; USA; Metrocolor; 97m) *** d. Richard Fleischer; w. Stanley R. Greenberg; ph. Richard H. Kline; m. Fred Myrow; ed. Samuel E. Beetley. Cast: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Edward G. Robinson, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Brock Peters, Paula Kelly, Stephen Young, Mike Henry, Whit Bissell. In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York…