Walter Hill’s 1981 cult classic survival film SOUTHERN COMFORT is coming to Blu Ray/DVD on July 8th from Shout Factory. A Louisiana National Guard troop (played by Powers Boothe, Keith Carradine, Fred Ward, Franklyn Seales, TK Carter et al) are sent on a training exercise that takes them through the […]
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John Woo‘s 1993 furious action classic HARD TARGET marked his debut as an American filmmaker and was my introduction to his work. I remember reading about the film when it was released and my curiosity was stirred when star Jean Claude Van Damme referred to Woo as “the Martin Scorsese […]
Walter Hill got his start in film as an assistant director on Bullitt (1968), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and Woody Allen’s screwball crime comedy Take The Money and Run (1969). He then moved on to writing screenplays for such classics as Robert Culp’s Hickey & Boggs (1972) and Sam […]