It’s taken 100 years for a film about the Suffragette movement to reach the cinema screen. So, better make the most of it, now it’s here. We might have hoped for a biopic of the main […]
Director Franco Zeffirelli originally conceived his 1972 biopic of St Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) back in the mid-Sixties and it is that decade’s idealistic, love-and-peace, love-as-all-you-need flavour that is stamped all over this hippyish youth-slanted […]
John Travolta and Madeleine Stowe star as warrant officer CID detectives who are brought in to a Florida army base to investigate after retiring base commander Lieutenant General ‘Fighting Joe’ Campbell (James Cromwell)’s military daughter […]
The brilliant, controversial 1972 American action crime thriller film Prime Cut stars Lee Marvin as a Chicago mob enforcer sent to Kansas to collect a debt from a meatpacker boss (Gene Hackman) who grinds his enemies […]
In a future world of 2005 with neither war nor crime, the public’s aggression is channelled into the ultra-violent sport of rollerball, a kind of basketball played on spiked motorbikes and deadly skates. Director John McTiernan’s […]
Norman Jewison’s 1975 futuristic sci-fi thriller film Rollerball is a triumph. It stars an outstanding James Caan, John Houseman, Ralph Richardson, Maud Adams, John Beck and Moses Gunn. Producer-director Norman Jewison’s 1975 futuristic sci-fi thriller film […]
Director John McTiernan’s all-too-basic 2003 thriller stars John Travolta and Connie Nielsen as DEA drug agents who investigate deaths in the American army. The deaths seem to involve a sadistic sergeant, played by Samuel L Jackson. […]
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