Goodness, gracious! It’s Dennis Quaid giving an amusing caricature of a performance as legendary Fifties rocker Jerry Lee Lewis, in the 1989 stylised comic-book biopic Great Balls of Fire!, which reunites Dennis Quaid with Jim […]
The public of the day was more mystified than amused by director Richard Lester’s 1969 The Bed Sitting Room, but it does entertain sporadically and sustain a level of interest when viewed now on TV. […]
The all too moderate 1986 effort Firewalker is a below-par vehicle for popular action star Chuck Norris, in which Patricia Goodwin (Melody Anderson) hires adventurer fortune hunters (Max Donigan) Norris and Leo Porter (Louis Gossett […]
John Wayne stars in director William A Seiter’s rousing 1939 Western action epic Allegheny Uprising [The First Rebel], set in 1759 in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny Valley. Wayne plays an American frontier pioneer Jim Smith who leads […]
Director Nathan Juran’s 1964 sci-fi adventure yarn First Men in the Moon, taken from a story by H G Wells, is aimed to please eager teenagers, though it has some appeal to dads too. A […]
All aboard the London to Folkestone express for Michael Crichton’s 1979 Victorian crime caper, with Sean Connery as the cracksman William Pierce and Donald Sutherland as the safe-cracker Agar. ‘Steal from a moving train? Whoever […]
Director Alan Clarke’s 1989 BBC film The Firm stars Gary Oldman, who sizzles in this unsettling, violent TV movie as Bex Bissell, the psychotic leader of a London firm of soccer hooligans. He is 30, […]
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