Starsky and Hutch (TV) (1975; USA; Colour; 73m) *** d. Barry Shear; w. William Blinn; ph. Archie R. Dalzell; m. Lalo Schifrin. Cast: David Soul, Paul Michael Glaser, Michael Lerner, Morgan Sterne, Michael Conrad, Antonio Fargas, Richard Ward, Gilbert Green, Carole Ita White, Don Billett, Gordon Jump, Karen Lamm. The two detectives investigating a double…
Month: August 2017
Film Review – INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989; USA; DeLuxe; 127m) *** d. Steven Spielberg; w. Jeffrey Boam, George Lucas, Menno Meyjes; ph. Douglas Slocombe; m. John Williams. Cast: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Alison Doody, John Rhys-Davies, Julian Glover, River Phoenix, Michael Byrne, Vernon Dobtcheff, Paul Maxwell, Kevork Malikyan, Alex Hyde-White, Richard Young, Alexei…
Film Review – CASABLANCA (1942)
Casablanca (1942; USA; B&W; 102m) ***** d. Michael Curtiz; w. Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch; ph. Arthur Edeson; m. Max Steiner. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, S.Z. Sakall, Madeleine LeBeau, Dooley Wilson, Joy Page, John Qualen, Leonid Kinskey. Set in unoccupied Africa…
Film Review – JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (1963)
Jason and the Argonauts (1963; UK/USA; Eastmancolor; 104m) **** d. Don Chaffey; w. Jan Read, Beverley Cross; ph. Wilkie Cooper; m. Bernard Herrmann. Cast: Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond, Laurence Naismith, Niall MacGinnis, Michael Gwynn, Douglas Wilmer, Jack Gwillim, Honor Blackman, John Cairney, Patrick Troughton, Andrew Faulds, Nigel Green. The legendary Greek hero leads…
Film Review – PASSENGERS (2016)
Passengers (2016; USA; Colour; 116m) **½ d. Morten Tyldum; w. Jon Spaihts; ph. Rodrigo Prieto; m. Thomas Newman. Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne, Andy Garcia, Inder Kumar, Jamie Soricelli, Vince Foster, Julee Cerda, Robert Larriviere, Barbara Jones. A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has…
Film Review – THE GUNS OF NAVARONE (1961)
Guns of Navarone, The (1961; USA; Eastmancolor; 158m) **** d. J. Lee Thompson; w. Carl Foreman; ph. Oswald Morris; m. Dimitri Tiomkin. Cast: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle, Irene Papas, Gia Scala, James Darren, James Robertson Justice, Richard Harris, Bryan Forbes, Allan Cuthbertson, Michael Trubshawe, Percy Herbert, George Mikell. A…
Book Review – GET CARTER (formerly JACK’S RETURN HOME) (1970) by Ted Lewis
GET CARTER (formerly JACK’S RETURN HOME) by TED LEWIS (1970, Allison & Busby, 286pp) ****½ Blurb: Doncaster, and Jack Carter is home for a funeral – his brother Frank’s. Frank’s car was found at the bottom of a cliff, with Frank inside. He was not only dead drunk but dead as well. What could have made…
Casting rumours/speculation for Shaft reboot/sequel
It is being reported in Variety, that Samuel L jackson has been approached to reprise his role from 2000’s Shaft with Jessie T. Usher being lined up to play his son. It’s the usual “sources tell us…” approach to reporting, so we’ll wait and see. The film is set to be directed by Tim Story…
Film Review – THE STING (1973)
Sting, The (1973; USA; Technicolor; 129m) ****½ d. George Roy Hill; w. David S. Ward; ph. Robert Surtees; m. Marvin Hamlisch (adaptor), Scott Joplin. Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Robert Earl Jones, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan, Harold Gould, Dana Elcar, Jack Kehoe, John Heffernan, Dimitra Arliss, James Sloyan, Charles Dierkop, Sally…
Film Review – THE MARTIAN (2015)
THE MARTIAN (2015, USA/UK/Hungary/Jordan, 144m, 12) **** Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi dist. Twentieth Century Fox; pr co. Twentieth Century Fox / Scott Free / Genre Films / International Traders / Kinberg Genre / Mid Atlantic Films; d. Ridley Scott; w. Drew Goddard (based on the novel by Andy Weir); pr. Mark Huffam, Simon Kinberg, Michael Schaefer,…