All the President’s Men, 1976. Directed by Alan J. Pakula. Starring Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook, and Jason Robards. SYNOPSIS: All the President’s Men gets a satisfying 4K Ulttra HD release from Warner Bros. in time for its 50th anniversary. The film looks great, and the package includes a code […]
R.I.P. Hal Holbrook (1925 – 2021)
Acclaimed American actor Hal Holbrook has died aged 95, Joyce Cohen, his assistant, confirmed on Monday. In a career spanning over 70 years, Holbrook appeared extensively on both stage and screen, most notably as Mark Twain in a one-man show about the novelist for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in 1966. […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 22 – The Fog (1980)
The Fog, 1980. Directed by John Carpenter. Starring Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh, and Hal Holbrook. SYNOPSIS: A small fishing town is enveloped by a mysterious fog, bringing with it the vengeful spirits of the mariners killed in a shipwreck 100 years prior. After omitting him from last year’s October Horrors, […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 17 – Creepshow (1982)
Creepshow, 1982. Directed by George A. Romero. Starring Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver, Carrie Nye, Leslie Nielsen, Ted Danson, EG Marshall and Stephen King. SYNOPSIS: An anthology of five terrifying stories of ghoulish horrors ripped from the pages of classic horror comics. If there is one genre that has dominated cinemas for the last […]
