We move back to Drama in the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book, and take a look at Martin Scorsese’s biopic on boxing legend Jake La Motta, brought to visceral life by an Oscar wining performance by Robert De Niro. As succesful as La Motta would prove to be inside the boxing ring,…
Tag: 1980
Doctor Who (Tom Baker) – The Android Invasion
This week finds us visiting the small village of Devesham in this four-part story penned by Terry Nation, which aired from 22 November to 13 December, 1875. The Doctor (Baker) and Sarah-Jane (Elisabeth Sladen) arrive back in the right time, 1980, but still not quite to London. Instead they discover the little town of…
Doctor Who (Tom Baker) – Pyramids of Mars
Aliens are using Earth’s mythology to put themselves in the roles of gods in this four-part story written by Stephen Harris (a pseudonym for Robert Holmes and Lewis Greifer) that ran from 25 October to 15 November, 1975. Trouble starts when a shocking discovery is made in an Egyptian tomb in the year 1911….
Trailer Tracks: The Shining (1980) – Stanley Kubrick
Sometimes a trailer comes along that tells you next to nothing about the movie but for who’s involved, set that against a small clip of one of the most disturbing sequences in the movie, and you have yourself a unique teaser, like the one below for the Kubrick film based on Stephen King’s novel,…
Trailer Tracks: Star Wars – The Empire Strikes Back (1980) – Irvin Kershner
Quite possibly the best sequel ever made! With Harrison Ford doing his best 1940s narrator voice, I so lost my cool when I first realized there would be another movie set in the universe that had so impacted my life in 1977. For me, growing up, Star Wars and Star Trek (joined a year…
Trailer Tracks: Flash Gordon (1980) – Mike Hodges
The music of Queen, art deco space ships, Max Von Sydow, Topol, Timothy Dalton and Brian Blessed, tongue-in-cheek storytelling… yup… time to watch this one again…
