Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes headline Philip Kaufman’s Rising Sun, an adaptation of the Michael Crichton novel, which was adapted to the big screen by Crichton, Kaufman, and Michael Backes. The technology, which seemed a little whiz-bang at the time is common place now, but, it still highlights its danger. When an escort is murdered…
Tag: rear-projection
The Land That Time Forgot (1974) – Kevin Connor
The next film to be explored in DK Canada’s hugely enjoyable Monsters in the Movies book as I continue my sojourn through the chapter on Dragons & Dinosaurs is this 1974 film that not only the land forgot, but time too. I can’t say I ever heard of it, and it should have been the…
Firefox (1982)
I’m not a fan of remakes, but if there was one that I would get behind, it would be Firefox. Directed by Clint Eastwood, this was one of the first grown-up movies I got to see on my own. For that there will always be a happy memory of this movie in my head, I…
The Mind Reels 