Director Michael Caton-Jones’s good-natured, nicely cast 1991 romantic comedy drama Doc Hollywood stars Michael J Fox as arrogant young big-city doctor Dr Ben Stone, who is sentenced to 32 hours community service in a small […]
Director Philippe Mora’s 1984 A Breed Apart is a fascinating, intelligent movie and stars a fine quartet in Rutger Hauer, Powers Boothe. Kathleen Turner, and Donald Pleasence. Avaricious billionaire collector J P Whittier (Pleasence) hires […]
The controversial 1985 Flesh+Blood [Flesh and Blood] is a gruesomely realistic sword and sorcery adventure movie, handsomely well made by director Paul Verhoeven, and starring Rutger Hauer as the medieval mercenary outlaw band leader Martin, […]
The British stalwart reserve and resolve in a crisis is examined in force in director Roy Ward Baker’s intense British classic 1950 real-life submarine naval drama Morning Departure [Operation Disaster]. John Mills stars as Lieutenant […]
It’s the powers of good, represented by sorcerer’s apprentice Galen (Peter MacNicol), against one of the screen’s most impressive dragons, Vermithrax Pejorative, in the dark ages of the sixth-century kingdom of Urland. Director Matthew Robbins’s […]
Rory Calhoun stars as an extremely creepy old man called Farmer Vincent Smith, who runs the Motel Hello with his sister Ida (Nancy Parsons), and sells meat that originates with the customers – unsuspecting kidnapped […]
Director Tom Clegg’s 1978 Sweeney 2 is the slightly disappointing, less good sequel to the successful 1977 big-screen movie spinoff Sweeney! from the hit John Thaw and Dennis Waterman TV series. The London Flying Squad […]