Mars Attacks! Director: Tim Burton Producer: Tim Burton, Larry J. Franco, Laurie Parker Writer: Woody Gelman, Bob Powell, Norman Saunders Cast: Jack Nicholson President James Dale, Art Land Glenn Close First Lady Marsha Dale Annette Bening Barbara Land Pierce Brosnan Professor Donald Kessler and “Bob” Dobbs Danny DeVito Rude Gambler Martin Short Press Secretary Jerry …
2001: A Space Odyssey Directed and Produced by Stanley Kubrick Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke Starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood and a little red dot Cinematography Geoffrey Unsworth Edited by Ray Lovejoy Production company Stanley Kubrick Productions Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Yes, I did see 2001 on the big screen when it first …
The Shining Directed & Produced by Stanley Kubrick Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick & Diane Johnson Based on The Shining by Stephen King 447 pp, Doubleday 1977 Starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd Contains spoilers since I discuss the differences in how the two versions end. But the movie is over 40 years …
The Hill Directed by Sidney Lumet Produced by Kenneth Hyman Written by R.S. Allen (play) & Ray Rigby (screenplay) Based on The Hill, 1965 play by Ray Rigby Starring Sean Connery; Harry Andrews; Ian Bannen; Alfred Lynch; Ossie Davis; Roy ` Kinnear; Jack Watson; Ian Hendry; Sir Michael Redgrave Cinematography Oswald Morris Edited by Thelma …
A Christmas Carol (2019) Based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Written by Steven Knight Story by Charles Dickens Directed by Nick Murphy Guy Pearce as Ebenezer Scrooge Andy Serkis as Ghost of Christmas Past Stephen Graham as Jacob Marley Charlotte Riley as Lottie/Ghost of Christmas Present Joe Alwyn as Bob Cratchit Vinette Robinson …
The Irishman Directed by Martin Scorsese Produced by Martin Scorsese Robert De Niro Jane Rosenthal Emma Tillinger Koskoff Irwin Winkler Gerald Chamales Gastón Pavlovich Randall Emmett Gabriele Israilovici Screenplay by Steven Zaillian Based on I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt Cast Robert De Niro as Frank Sheeran Al Pacino as Jimmy Hoffa Joe …
Touch of Evil Universal-International, original release 1958, review based on 1998 version that incorporated Wells notes on how he wanted the final version of the film to be. Produced by Albert Zugsmith Screenplay and direction: Orson Welles Charlton Heston as Ramon Miguel Vargas Janet Leigh as Susan Vargas Orson Welles as Police Captain Hank Quinlan …