Director Lawrence Kasdan’s 1983 comedy drama The Big Chill is a sardonic and amusing look at a band of seven former college buddies from the radical Sixties who reunite for a friend’s funeral for a […]
Director George Roy Hill’s 1982 comedy drama The World According to Garp brings John Irving’s novel to the screen with its clever quirkiness and humour intact thanks to writer Steve Tesich’s intelligent adaptation and director […]
‘See Human Heads Transplanted!’ ‘See natives eaten alive by giant vultures!’ Directed Eddie Romero’s low-budget (between $125,000 and $200,000) 1970 Filipino horror film Beast of Blood [released in the UK as Blood Devils] is the sequel to The Mad Doctor […]
Director Jeremy Summers’s campy 1968 adventure thriller Eve stars the 24-year-old Celeste Yarnall as the central character Eve, along with Robert Walker Jr, Fred Clark, Herbert Lom, and Christopher Lee. Eve is advertised as ‘The Original Flower Child’, which is how Celeste Yarnall (1944 […]
Director Norman Taurog’s 1968 Live a Little, Love a Little is an easy-going, good-natured, very old-fashioned musical-comedy vehicle for Elvis Presley. It was way out of step with the times back in 1968 but seems […]
Director Roger Spottiswoode’s 1986 The Best of Times is the first of three 1986 flop films that the late great Robin Williams made in his own worst of box-office times, playing Jack Dundee, a mild, bespectacled […]
Director Ted Kotcheff’s 1989 period drama Winter People stars Kurt Russell as young widower Wayland Jackson, arriving in a North Carolina mountain town with his daughter Paula (Amelia Burnette) in 1934, falls for young unmarried […]
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