Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell taking a look at The Killing Fields starring Sam Waterston and direction coming from Roland Joffe.
The Contenders
1984 offers some excellent titles to pore over. The big winner from the year’s award season was Milos Forman’s Amadeus, a period drama studying the complex character of Mozart. Besides that, there’s Sergio Leone’s sprawling gangster epic Once Upon A Time In America; Rob Reiner’s... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on March 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell taking a look at One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher.
The Contenders.
1975 offers some top titles as well as being the ‘birth-year’ of the summer event movie, in this case a might fine one in the shape of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. Stanley Kubrick returns with the meticulous epic Barry Lyndon; Al Pacino’s run of brilliant movies continues with... Read More
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Posted by Leon Nicholson on June 3, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Continuing the series of Talkin’ Oldies, Jonathon Dabell takes a look at John Huston’s The List of Adrian Messenger starring George C. Scott and Kirk Douglas.
This is the second John Huston movie to be examined in the Talkin’ Oldies series. The first, Heaven Knows, Mr Allison, is undoubtedly the better of the two films… but The List Of Adrian Messenger is nevertheless a good, solid mystery thriller in the old-fashioned tradition. It offers... Read More
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The Talkin’ Oldies series continues with Jonathon Dabell taking a look at one of John Huston’s forgotten pieces of work Heaven Knows Mr Allison; starring Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr.
It’s always interesting to hear what movie stars and directors think of their own work, especially their opinions on the “bests” and “worsts”. Michael Caine often referred to Ashanti: Land Of No Mercy as the worst film he ever made (which it isn’t)... Read More
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