Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters, 2024Directed by Benjamin Field. Featuring Valerie Leon, Tim Burton, John Landis, Joe Dante, John Carpenter, Martine Beswick, Caroline Munro, Madeline Smith, John Gore, Jonathan Rigby, Wayne Kinsey, and Axelle Carolyn.SYNOPSIS:Showcases Hammer Films through the eyes of its actors, filmmakers and fans, tracing the history of the production house.Whether it is […]
Blu-ray Review – Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Twilight Zone: The Movie, 1983.Directed by John Landis, George Miller, Joe Dante, and Steven Spielberg. Starring Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Scatman Crothers, John Lithgow, Vic Morrow, Kathleen Quinlan, and Burgess Meredith.SYNOPSIS:Warner Bros. has reissued their out-of-print Blu-ray of 1983’s Twilight Zone: The Movie. As far as I know, this is the same disc that was […]
An American Werewolf in London Revisited
Released on this day in 1981, John Landis’ iconic and groundbreaking An American Werewolf in London is no less impressive in the modern era…When you think of iconic horror there may be a number of images which spring to mind. It might be Leatherface doing his tribal chainsaw dance at the end of The Texas […]
4K Ultra HD Review – An American Werewolf in London (1981)
An American Werewolf in London, 1981.Directed by John Landis. Starring David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, and John Woodvine.SYNOPSIS:An American Werewolf in London makes its 4K debut courtesy of Arrow Video, which commission a new 4K restoration along with a nice batch of new bonus features to add to all the legacy content they ported […]
Blu-ray Review – Trading Places (1983)
Trading Places, 1983.Directed by John Landis. Starring Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, Jamie Lee Curtis.SYNOPSIS:Paramount is on an Eddie Murphy nostalgia blitz to promote the upcoming release of the sequel Coming 2 America, and as part of that they’ve reissued Trading Places on Blu-ray with improved image quality and a […]
The Mummy director fires back, Spider-Man in MCU update, Pirates of the Caribbean passes $650 million and more – Daily News Roundup
NOT FOR CRITICSIt’s becoming a cliched response for directors, but Alex Kurtzman has played the “not for critics” card following the poor reviews for The Mummy. Although completely asinine, this isn’t the first time a filmmaker has fired back at critics for not liking their films, claiming they were made “for the fans” (which suggests that […]
Second Generation Directors: The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree
Tom Jolliffe takes a look at directors following in their parents’ footsteps…Undoubtedly the influence of your parents plays a big part in shaping you as a person. In the almost surreal world of cinema and movie-making, there will be a kind of magical allure at the power a film director can wield. Offspring of the […]
October Horrors 2021 – An American Werewolf in London (1981)
An American Werewolf in London, 1981.Directed by John Landis. Starring David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine and Don McKillop.SYNOPSIS:After surviving an animal attack in which his friend is killed, an American backpacker travelling through England finds himself undergoing a terrifying transformation when the moon is full.We started this month with a look at […]
Blu-ray Review – Sleepwalkers (1992)
Sleepwalkers, 1992.Directed by Mick Garris. Starring Brian Krause, Mädchen Amick, Alice Krige, Ron Perlman, Glenn Shadix, Joe Dante, John Landis, Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Mark Hamill.SYNOPSIS:A vampiric mother-and-son move to a small town to seek out a young virgin in order to suck out her lifeforce . Sort of.Fed up with preachy social commentary […]
John Landis criticizes Lucasfilm for stifling creative talent: “It’s very worrying”
Director John Landis (An American Werewolf in London) is not one to stay silent when something is on his mind. Recently, Landis had some choice words for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as well as Universal’s Dark Universe, and now the director has turned his thoughts to Lucasfilm.Talking to Collider about a wide range of topics, the director […]
