Ronin, 1998. Directed by John Frankenheimer. Starring Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgård, Sean Bean, and Jonathan Pryce. SYNOPSIS: John Frankenheimer was a master of thrillers in his day, and one of his last, Ronin, arrives again on Blu-ray with a new 4K scan of the film courtesy of Kino Lorber. It’s […]
Blu-ray Review – Black Sunday (1977)
Black Sunday, 1977. Directed by John Frankenheimer. Starring Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, and Bekim Fehmiu. SYNOPSIS: Black Sunday ended up settling toward the bottom of the pile of disaster films that were released in the 1970s, but it’s still worth revisiting, thanks to solid direction by John Frankenheimer, the presence of […]
Seconds (1966) – October Horrors 2022
Seconds, 1966. Directed by John Frankenheimer. Starring Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, Will Geer, John Randolph, Jeff Corey, Richard Anderson and Murray Hamilton. SYNOPSIS: An unhappy middle-aged man is offered a second chance at life by a mysterious organisation. We all wish we had second chances. Whether it be for a single terrible day or for […]
Book Review – Seconds by Jez Conolly and Emma Westwood
Rachel Bellwoar reviews Seconds by Jez Conolly and Emma Westwood… Seconds isn’t the first film to create suspense around the appearance of a person whose face is covered in bandages. The Invisible Man did it. So did Eyes Without a Face and Dark Passage. Never are these films content to let the bandages stay on, […]
Blu-ray Review – Prophecy (1979)
Prophecy, 1979. Directed by John Frankenheimer. Starring Talia Shire, Robert Foxworth, Armand Assante, Richard Dysart, Victoria Racimo, Kevin Peter Hall, Tom McLoughlin and George Clutesi. SYNOPSIS: A scientist and his wife investigate why the inhabitants of a Native American reservation and the surrounding wildlife are affected by genetic mutations. Ah, 1979! The year that cinema […]
Blu-ray Review – Ronin (1998)
Ronin, 1998. Directed by John Frankenheimer. Starring Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Sean Bean, Michael Lonsdale, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgård, and Skipp Sudduth. SYNOPSIS: A group of mercenaries are hired by Irish terrorists to retrieve a case to stop it falling into Russian hands. In case you didn’t know, ronin are Samurai warriors whose […]
Blu-ray Review – 52 Pick-Up (1986)
52 Pick-Up, 1986. Directed by John Frankenheimer. Starring Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity, Kelly Preston, John Glover, Robert Trebor, Clarence Williams III, Kelly Preston. SYNOPSIS: A cheating husband is blackmailed by a gang who threaten to publicly reveal his affair, thwarting his politically ambitious wife’s plans and forcing him to take matters into his own hands. […]
Blu-ray Review – The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate, 1962. Directed by John Frankenheimer. Starring Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silver and James Gregory. SYNOPSIS: A former Korean War POW is brainwashed by Communists into becoming a political assassin. But another former prisoner may know how to save him. Exploring the extremes of cold war paranoia in a […]