Outland, 1981. Directed by Peter Hyams. Starring Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, James B. Sikking, and Kika Markham. SYNOPSIS: Peter Hyams’ 1981 western sci-fi film Outland arrives on 4K Ultra HD, courtesy of Arrow Video. The company has given the movie the kind of Criterion-like treatment they’ve become known for, with over an hour’s […]
Die Hard with Stallone, Seagal and Van Damme
Tom Jolliffe ventures back to the 90’s, when three action icons made Die Hard riffs… It’s often said that the buff action specialists of the 80’s, who were larger than life and almost comically unstoppable were slowly pushed out of the forefront of the market by more every man heroes. Die Hard is often pinpointed […]
When Arnold Schwarzenegger prevented the End of Days
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the Y2K era Schwarzenegger vehicle End of Days, released during a period of millennium apocalypse fascination… Remember Y2K? Remember the threat of an impending apocalyptic event? Or if not that, PCs around the world going haywire. As it transpires, soothsayers from the middle ages were a bit off course with […]
Running Scared vs Running Scared
Tom Jolliffe looks back at two films with the same title, Running Scared (1986 and 2006)… 2021 brought with it several significant anniversaries. Interestingly though it brought significant anniversaries to two somewhat underappreciated films that share the same title. First of all we have Running Scared, the Peter Hyams helmed action comedy from 1986. That […]
New Year Horrors – End of Days (1999)
End of Days, 1999. Directed by Peter Hyams. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunny, Kevin Pollak, and Rod Steiger. SYNOPSIS: On the eve of the new Millennium, alcoholic former New York cop Jericho Cane finds himself at the centre of an ancient conflict between good and evil involving a young woman whom he must […]
