Lucky, 2017 Directed by John Carroll Lynch. Starring Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, James Darren, Tom Skerritt and Ed Begley Jr. SYNOPSIS: Lucky is elderly and lives alone. When he collapses at home, he realises he has to face up to his inevitable decline and accept it Harry Dean Stanton’s penultimate film is also his […]
October Horrors 2017 Day 1 – Alien (1979)
Alien, 1979. Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartright, Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto and John Hurt. SYNOPSIS: The crew of the cargo ship Nostromo receives a distress signal from a nearby planet and while investigating, one of the crew is attacked by a parasite which implants an embryo […]
61st BFI London Film Festival Review – Lucky (2017)
Lucky, 2017. Directed by John Carroll Lynch Starring Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Barry Shabaka Henley, Beth Grant, and Tom Skerritt. SYNOPSIS: The spiritual journey of a ninety-year-old atheist. Late, lamented Hollywood legend Harry Dean Stanton had the sort of face the camera practically keeled over for. Less a visage than an ordnance survey map of […]
Blu-ray Review – Escape from New York (1981)
Escape from New York, 1981. Directed by John Carpenter. Starring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes, Harry Dean Stanton, Adrienne Barbeau and Tom Atkins. SYNOPSIS: In 1997, when the US President crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in for a rescue. […]
R.I.P. Harry Dean Stanton (1926 – 2017)
Prolific character actor Harry Dean Stanton has passed away of natural causes aged 91, it has been announced today. Born in 1926, Stanton enjoyed a career than spanned over 60 years, appearing in a host of films including Cool Hand Luke, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, Kelly’s Heroes, The Godfather Part II, Alien, Escape from New […]
