Bryce Dallas Howard (aged 34) stars as Claire, the frosty, workaholic manager of Isla Nublar’s fully functioning, operational dinosaur theme park called Jurassic World, as envisioned by John Hammond in Jurassic Park (1993) 22 years ago. After […]
Producer-director John McTiernan’s comedy sci-fi action adventure thriller was supposed to be the 1993 summer blockbuster but Jurassic Park stole much of its thunder and its business. Unfairly, and unexpectedly, it severely damaged Arnold Schwarzenegger’s box-office […]
Don Siegel’s gritty 1973 neo-noir crime thriller Charley Varrick is a total humdinger, with Walter Matthau as an ex-stunt pilot who accidentally lifts a Mafia fortune. Joe Don Baker is a great villain as the […]
Vincent Price stars in one of his best horror roles as the true-life 17th-century witchfinder Matthew Hopkins, in the chilling 1968 film Witchfinder General [The Conqueror Worm]. Vincent Price stars in the 1968 film Witchfinder […]
Writer-director Bruce Robinson turns his memories of being an out-of-work actor into an art form. Robinson profitably digs into his own memories as a young actor in Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet and Francois Truffaut’s The […]
Director Don Siegel’s superb, haunting 1976 character-driven Western stars John Wayne in his final role as aging gunfighter John Book, who is struck down not by a baddy’s bullet but by terminal cancer, as Wayne was […]
Producer-director Don Siegel’s 1971 cult Civil War Western chiller is a rich and strange, and often quite beautiful movie. It was Siegel’s favourite of his films. It reunites him with Clint Eastwood, who stars as […]
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