The next recommendation from the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book for Some Like It Hot is this zany madcap comedy set in San Francisco and starring Barbara Streisand and Ryan O’Neal. Hanging the slightest of story threads on the concept of four identical overnight bags, and four adjoining hotel rooms, this one…
Month: May 2014
Traielr Tracks: The Omen (1976) – Richard Donner
Not to be confused with the pointless remake, this classic horror film, played for the most part, straightforward, and almost as a drama, until the terrifying incidents begin to occur, and parents Gregory Peck and Lee Remick start to think there is something much more sinister about their young child, Damien (Harvey Stephens). The film…
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) – Albert Lewin
The recommendations following Pandora’s Box in Great Movies – 100 Years of Film is this romantic fantasy drama starring Ava Gardner and James Mason in the titular roles and both of them are seeking a form of redemption and salvation. Gardner as Pandora, for me, is extremely unlikable character, cold, manipulative, and quite willing to…
Trailer Tracks: Krull (1983) – Peter Yates
This movie has terrible acting, some cheesey special effects, but a mostly cool idea, and I totally crushed on Lysette Anthony in this film! It has a score by James Horner, and features some very recognizable names and faces… Ken Marshall, Freddie Jones, Francesca Annis, Alun Armstrong, Robbie Coltrane and Liam Neeson!
Doctor Who (William Hartnell) – The Chase
The Daleks are back in this week’s story written by Terry Nation and airing in 6 parts from 22 May to 26 June, 1965. It also, at the end of the story, sees the departure of Ian (William Russell) and Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) from the TARDIS as they finally find a way home. After their…
Orphan Black S04E04 – Governed As It Were By Chance
Tonight on Space, Sarah (Tatiana Maslany) decides to take the fight to Rachel. And who can blame her after the way the last episode ended with the car she and Daniel (Matthew Bennett) are in got totalled?! This week picks up right from that moment, and doesn’t let up for the entire run of the episode….
Trailer Tracks: All the President’s Men (1976) – Alan J. Pakula
Woodward and Bernstein, Redford and Hoffman. Watergate. Nixon. Journalism. Love this movie.
Black Narcissus (1947) – Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
The next recommendation from Great Movies – 100 Years of Film following Pandora’s Box, is this 1947 classic starring Deborah Kerr, based on Rumer Godden’s novel. A rundown palace, remotely positioned in the Himalayan mountains is the new location for a hospital and school to be run by a small group of nuns, led by newly commissioned Mother Superior,…
Trailer Tracks: Back To The Future (1985) – Robert Zemeckis
Anyone who knows me, knows how much I love this movie, and after all these years there isn’t a thing in this that has changed my love for it. A fun time-travel story, a brillilant cast, including one of my heroes, Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover and Thomas F. Wilson. The…
Tales of the Gold Monkey (1982/1983) – The Late of Sarah White & The Sultan of Swat
Jake Cutter (Stephen Collins) flies into more danger with this week’s installment. The first episode, The Late Sarah White, aired 22 December, 1982, and was written by Bellisario, George Geiger, Mary Ann Kasica and Michael Scheff. When a telegram from the Phillipines arrives in the Monkey Bar, Jake, Corky (Jeff MacKay), Louie (Roddy McDowall) and company…
The Mind Reels 