Steve McQueen’s 2018 cinema version of Lynda La Plante’s masterly 1983 British TV mini-series Widows is both a posh art film and an exciting mainstream heist thriller, but only just. Something is lost on the […]
Lawrence Kasdan, fresh from Body Heat and The Big Chill, co-writes, produces and directs the 1985 Silverado, a visually resplendent movie telling a well-plotted Western tale about four drifters – Kevin Kline as Paden, Scott […]
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 […]
George Roy Hill’s 1982 comedy drama film The World According to Garp brings John Irving’s novel to the screen with its clever quirkiness and humour intact. Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close and John […]
‘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 […]
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