Director Stephen Weeks’s 1973 adventure fantasy Gawain and the Green Knight is an adequate low-budget attempt to re-create the medieval tale from Mallory’s epic poem of the squire Gawain (Murray Head) who accepts the swordsman’s […]
The 1974 Ghost Story has Marianne Faithfull, horror queen Barbara Shelley’s final cinema film appearance, a killer doll, and the man who really was Withnail. Stephen Weeks’s third film (after I, Monster and Gawain and […]
The Belgian martial artist Jean-Claude Van Damme gained wide movie stardom with the 1989 American martial arts action thriller film Kickboxer. ‘An Ancient Sport Becomes A Deadly Game.’ Directors Mark DiSalle and David Worth’s 1989 American […]
Director Sam Peckinpah’s surprisingly relaxed, warm and likeable anarchic 1978 trucker comedy Convoy stars Kris Kristofferson as good ol’ boy Rubber Duck and follows his fight for freedom on the highways, hotly pursued by bad […]
Director Roland Emmerich’s 1992 action sci-fi thriller Universal Soldier proved a good-sized hit for him and his exciting action stars Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren. It cost $23,000,000, and grossed $36,299,898, with a cumulative […]
‘THE HELL-BENT, JAZZ-CRAZED ERA AND THE MAN WHO RULED IT ALL’ Director Joseph M Newman’s 1961 black and white B movie biographical crime drama King of the Roaring 20s – The Story of Arnold Rothstein […]
Alvin Rakoff’s 1958 British sexploitation drama film Passport to Shame [Room 43] is a downbeat crime tale about a taxi driver (Eddie Constantine), who weds a French woman (Odile Versois) for money and then protects […]
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