The powerful but distasteful 1971 British gangster thriller movie Villain stars Richard Burton in a nasty role as Vic Dakin, a sadistic, murderous, mother-obsessed London East End cockney gangland leader. Director Michael Tuchner’s powerful but […]
Dove Linkhorn: ‘What are you doing here, Kit?’ Kitty Twist: ‘I run the candy concession.’ Despite the film’s original release public relations hysteria as really hot stuff, director Edward Dmytryk’s would-be shocking 1962 movie proves […]
Unfortunately, you expect more from this earnest, massive 1963 Anglo-American anti-war epic than either the writer-producer-director Carl Foreman or his big all-star team of 15 leading American and European players can deliver. The Victors follows a squad […]
In Fifties Somerset, England, Eva (Samatha Morton) is looking after her forgetful dad (Frank Finlay) and living with her crazy farmer lover Harry (Lee Ross), but loves her childhood sweetheart Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves). Director […]
Director Irvin Kershner’s Raid on Entebbe was made as an NBC TV movie, aired on 9 January 1977, but, thanks to the good reviews it won and its popular all-star ensemble cast, a film version was then released […]
Victory at Entebbe stars in alphabetical order Helmut Berger, Theodore Bikel, Linda Blair, Kirk Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss, Stefan Gierasch, David Groh, Julius Harris (as the Ugandan dictator General Idi Amin), Helen Hayes, Anthony Hopkins (as Israeli Prime […]
So very, very sad. John Hurt is lovely, but it is almost unbearable to watch a dying man play a dying man. That Good Night is so very, very sad. John Hurt is lovely in […]
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