The beautiful, romantic and tragic Ju Dou is the next title on the What Else to Watch list as I continue to work my way through the immensely enjoyable The Movie Book from DK Canada. Following my screening of Raise the Red Lantern, this was one of the book’s recommendations. Starring Li Gong as the…
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Natural Born Killers (1994) – Oliver Stone
When you combine a story by Quentin Tarantino and the directorial style of Oliver Stone, you know you are going to get something unique to filmmaking, and Natural Born Killers is very much that. It is also the title on the What Else to Watch list from DK Books’ The Movie Book following their recommendation…
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990) – Brothers, and Suddenly Human
Captain’s log: stardate 44085.7 The theme of family which runs through this entire season of Next Generation is very prevalent here in this episode that was written by Rick Berman. First airing on 8 October, 1990, this is a very Brent Spiner-heavy episode. A medical emergency necessitates a run to a nearby starbase, however, Data…
Saturday Night Fever: The Director’s Cut (1977) – John Badham
Paramount Pictures takes you back to the dance floor with the blu-ray and DVD release of the Director’s Cut of the now iconic Saturday Night Fever, which helped to catapult John Travolta, a Sweathog from Welcome Back, Kotter, to super-stardom. It’s easy now to think of the film as a time capsule of the 70s…
The Sand Pebbles (1966) – Robert Wise
Robert Wise directs Steve McQueen, Mako, Candice Bergen, Richard Attenborough, James Hong, and Richard Crenna in this adaptation of Richard McKenna’s novel, and my next port of call in the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book following my screening of Lawrence of Arabia. McQueen is Jake Holman who has just been assigned to…
Star Trek: The Original Series (1967) – The Return of the Archons and Space Seed
Captain’s log: stardate 3156.2 The Return of the Archons was penned by Boris Sobelman from a story by Gene Roddenberry and had an original airdate of 9 February, 1967. The Enterprise is investigating the fate of the U.S.S. Archon that went missing a century ago. There is a being, known as Landru (Charles Macauley) that…
Quantum Leap (1989) – Jimmy and So Help Me God
Sometimes it’s the simplest stories that work the best, and are the most poignant, the first episode up this week, Jimmy, is just that.Penned by Paul M. Belous and Robert Wolterstorff, the episode aired 22 November, 1989, it sees Sam (Scott Bakula) leaping into an intellectually challenged man, Jimmy, on 14 October, 1964. He…
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) – J. Lee Thompson
The Sci-Fi Chronicles takes me back to the Planet of the Apes series again, as we take on the third sequel, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. Set in the near future, the far distant year of 1991, the plague spoken of in the last film has struck, wiping out household pets, and…
The Greatest American Hero (1982/1983) – The Resurrection of Carlini and The Newlywed Game
We’re flying through the final season of The Greatest American Hero, and there are some good eps, and some bad eps, this week, I though both of them were pretty solid. First up is The Resurrection of Carlini, which was written by Frank Lupo, and originally aired 19 November, 1982. There’s magic in the…
Inner Demons (2014) – Seth Grossman
Releasing today from Anchor Bay is this little horror film that follows through on an idea I’ve often toyed with writing up myself, the idea of possession and addiction… science vs. faith, all set in one person’s life. A found footage film, a genre that has been beaten to death, resurrected like Jason, and beaten again,…
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) – Danny Boyle
The final recommendation from the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book for my screening of On The Waterfront is this immensely enjoyable tale. Boyle’s kinetic, energetic film style is well-served in this film, that is a dramatic, heart-on-its-sleeve film that one 8 academy awards and that year’s ceremonies, including Best Picture, Best Director,…
The Rockford Files (1975/1976) – The Girl in the Bay City Boys Club & The Hammer of C Block
In this week’s installment of the Rockford Files, private investigator, Jim Rockford (James Garner) has his hands full with the mob and a fellow con on the look out for the murderer in a crime that he didn’t commit. The first episode, The Girl in the Bay City Boys Club, aired 19 December 1975, and…
