A few days ago a TV station in my country aired the rebooted Planet of The Apes series (one film per day). That led me to watch the original film from 1968 since it’s been a long time since I saw it and, in fact the film turned 50 years […]
Charlton Heston
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Richard Fleischer’s 1973 dystopian sci-fi classic SOYLENT GREEN is set in the year 2022 where the climate has been ruined by the greenhouse effect, oceans are dying out and poverty has skyrocketed. The city of New York has become overpopulated (40 million citizens) and alternate rations are being supplied by […]
In this 70s film adaptation of Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel I Am Legend, Charlton Heston plays U.S. Army Col. Robert Neville M.D., a Los Angeles based survivor of global biological warfare that wipes out most living things. Neville resides in a special fortified compound which he must defend from “The […]
Ever since first seeing Touch of Evil (1958) it has been one of my favorite films. It is often cited as one of the last examples of film noir but that statement is partially incorrect because the term, while largely associated with the 40s/50s hard boiled crime films is not […]