The presidential election is coming! It’s the time when we are forced to choose the candidate that…you know, is the least evil. Unfortunately, in this election we have many scary would-be candidates from both parties. In fact, if I was a US citizen I’d vote for a third party for […]
Fred Ward
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“Boy, you just bought the whole can of whup-ass!” In the 1980s there was a big surge in Vietnam themed war movies. From the Rambo and Missing in Action series to Platoon and Full Metal Jacket. They covered both the experiences of the soldiers in war and the aftermaths upon […]
“He got your gun…your badge…and your teeth? You are a disgrace to the police force.” A film that I’ve been a fan of for a long time is MIAMI BLUES (1990). It’s based on a novel by the great author Charles Willeford (Cockfighter) and directed by George Armitage who got […]
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 […]
“You move like a baboon… with two clubbed feet!” We all have those special little movies we may have seen at a young age, really enjoyed and never forgot. One of those for me is Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985). The film was based on a novel series called […]
“Some men are destined never to leave Alcatraz… alive.” Don Siegel’s 1979 prison film Escape From Alcatraz marked the fifth and final collaboration between the director and friend/star Clint Eastwood. The story is based on true events surrounding an escape from the infamous maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island in […]
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 […]