Stars: John Huston, Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Shelley Winters, Sam Peckinpah, Franco Nero | Written by Luciano Comici, Robert Mundi | Directed by Giulio Paradisi Back in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, cinema became obsessed with stories of supernatural possession. Classics like Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist, and The Omen proved just how popular […]
Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Ernest Borgnine, Ali McGraw, Burt Young, Franklyn Ajaye, Brian Davies, Seymour Cassel, Cassie Yates | Written by Bill Norton | Directed by Sam Peckinpah Directed by Sam Peckinpah, Convoy is a film that rides on the wave of the trucker and CB radio craze of the 1970s. Based on the popular country song […]
Stars: James Coburn, Maximillian Schell, James Mason, David Warner, Senta Berger | Written by Julius J. Epstein, Walter Kelley, James Hamilton | Directed by Sam Peckinpah Cross of Iron might not be as well-known or well-reviewed as some of the most popular World War II films. If you Google this subgenre you will soon see […]
American cinema in the Seventies through to the early Nighties was populated with the kind of leading characters you don’t see enough of any more – no nonsense, amoral tough guys, often on the wrong side of the law, rugged complexions lines with life, who start off mean and don’t get any nicer by the […]
To celebrate the release of Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia – out 23rd January on Blu-ray – we are giving away a copy courtesy of Arrow Video! Sam Peckinpah’s most personal movie, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is often regarded as his last great masterpiece, concluding the period in which he […]
Stars: Mel Ferrer, Paige Conner, Shelley Winters, Lance Henriksen, John Huston, Sam Peckinpah, Glenn Ford, Joanne Nail, Wallace Wilkinson | Written by Louciano Comici, Robert Mundi | Directed by Giulio Paradisi Some films just defy explanation, even to the point that to some people they are just a mess. These films are often labelled as bad, […]
