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 for a digital […]
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, we’re returning to the […]
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 few years it’s the […]
