Director Robert Aldrich was a man who seemed to love different genres of cinema. Just look at his filmography and you can see he wasn’t afraid to take on a variety of subject matter. Not only that but each time out he made classics. From his 1955 film noir Kiss […]
Ernest Borgnine
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Ernest Borgnine is an actor that over the years I’ve come to appreciate more and more. His tenacious persona in the many films and television shows he acted in impressed me from a young age. I think my first introduction to “Ernie” (as he liked to be called) was McHale’s […]
FILM REVIEW (145 MINUTE VERSION) “When you side with a man, you stay with him, and if you can’t do that you’re like some animal!” – Pike Bishop Sam Peckinpah’s 1969 masterpiece about the end of The Old West begins with a scene that was inspired by a story told […]
The disaster film was one of the most popular subgenres audiences flocked to during the 1970s. There were several big hits such as the Airport films, Earthquake, The Towering Inferno and Avalanche. Ronald Neame‘s The Poseidon Adventure (1972) was one of the best, it starred Gene Hackman as Reverend Scott […]
“You ain’t stopping at this hotel, kid. My hotel! The stars at night, I put ’em there. And I know the presidents, all of them. And I go where I damn well please. Even the chairman of the New York Central can’t do it better. My road, kid, and I […]