The Fury
Brian De Palma’s follow up to Carrie (1976) was The Fury (1978), a film that is at once both the last breath of the classic Hollywood star persona (Kirk Douglas)… Read more »
Tag: Kirk Douglas
Cast A Giant Shadow
It is Memorial Day. With that in mind I set about looking for a war film to watch and write about. War movies are not a genre that I particularly… Read more »
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Sometimes you stumble upon a film that seems so weird and unique that you just have to watch it even if you know, deep down, it’s going to be awful…. Read more »
The Vikings
Violence is everywhere in Richard Fleischer’s film The Vikings (1958). For men, one could be slain any minute by a sword or an axe and women face sexual assault at… Read more »
Saturn 3
I went into Saturn 3 (1980) as a fan of Martin Amis’ work, particularly The Pregnant Widow, only to discover later that a majority of the final script had been… Read more »
The Devil’s Disciple
Burt Lancaster would have been 107 years old on November 2nd. So I thought I would revisit one of my late father’s favorite films starring Lancaster, The Devil’s Disciple (1959)…. Read more »
Gunfight At The O.K. Corral
“We’re playing two pre-Freudian fags. We’re in love with each other and we don’t know how to express ourselves that way-we just kind of look at each other and grunt… Read more »
I Walk Alone
Byron Haskin’s third directorial effort, I Walk Alone (1948), is significant for a number of reasons. It was the first time the director would team with leading man Burt Lancaster… Read more »
