Battle Beyond The Stars
When I met John Sayles at a preview screening of his film Honeydripper (2007) I was struck by two things on my first impression. The first was the size and… Read more »
Tag: 1980s
Suddenly In The Dark
Suddenly In The Dark (1981) is a soapy Korean exploitation film that barrows from a cross-section of semi-related genres to tell its tale of a housewife on the verge of… Read more »
City War
City War (1988) reunites A Better Tomorrow (1986) stars Chow Yun-fat and Ti Lung for a gritty police thriller. Helmed by Shaw Brothers veteran Sun Chung, City War is more… Read more »
Hell Comes To Frogtown
In the distant future, in the wake of WWIII, there are few humans alive capable of procreating. The nuclear fallout that has rendered almost all of humanity sterile has also… Read more »
The Wicked Lady
Director Michael Winner filters Leslie Arliss’ melodrama through the exploitation genre and winds up with a masterpiece of high camp. The Wicked Lady (1983) is one of Michael Winner’s projects… Read more »
The Sign Of Four
The Sign Of Four (1987) is the first of the Sherlock Holmes television movies helmed by John Hawkesworth for Granada Television. The Sign Of Four corresponds to the end of… Read more »
Sword Of The Valiant
Sword of the Valiant (1984) was Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan’s attempt to cash-in on the success of John Boorman’s Excalibur (1981) by adapting the 14th century Arthurian poem Sir… Read more »
8 Million Ways To Die
8 Million Ways To Die (1986) could have been one of Hal Ashby’s greatest films, but he was fired before post-production could begin. Ashby’s great talent was to shoot his… Read more »
Caravaggio
A few years ago I was at Comic Con. I shopped, I saw friends and I took in a few panels. One of these panels was with Sean Bean. When… Read more »
The Mission
When Roland Joffé made The Mission (1986) he was at the height of his power having won tremendous acclaim for his film The Killing Fields (1984). On the basis of… Read more »
