Fred Ward – Parallel Universe Star
Why didn’t Fred Ward make it? He was all set up with an action franchise – did great work in ‘Miami Blues’, The Right Stuff” and ‘Tremors’ and yet and yet. Not a star. Not really. But. In my world – my parallel universe – he would have been big. You’d see Fred Ward action [...]
Delightful
There’s a fellow on Myspace who lists his favourite films as ‘Champion’, ‘Paths of Glory’, ‘Spartacus’ and ‘Lonely are the Brave’. These are all pretty strong movies, let’s face it. It’s clearly a fellow who likes Kirk Douglas. Turns out that it is Kirk Douglas. Kirk Douglas is one of those guys who exudes the [...]
The Only Actor Everybody Likes?
OK dear Listener, it’s Gareth here – some news just in, in order to interpret which here’s a list of 10 Hollywood films released since 1975, all of which I would happily re-watch any time; classy entertainment from an age when I was discovering the movies for myself. There’s a common denominator to this bunch [...]
‘The Visitor’ might just deserve your time
Good Monday to you dear Listener; it’s Professor Doctor here. We haven’t invested a lot of time in the ongoing conversation discussing smaller, independent-style movies; there’s no agenda there – it just happens that way. But I have asked the Maestro to consider giving ‘The Visitor’ some of his hard-earned and valuable time, after I [...]
