King Kong, 1976. Directed by John Guillermin. Starring Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange, John Randolph, Rene Auberjonois, Julius Harris, and Jack O’Halloran. SYNOPSIS: Dino De Laurentiis’s 1976 remake of King Kong tends to be forgotten in favor of Peter Jackson’s 2005 version, but many of us who were kids at the time tend to […]
Movie Review – First Cow (2019)
First Cow, 2019. Directed by Kelly Reichardt. Starring John Magaro, Orion Lee, Clayton Nemrow, Todd A. Robinson, Alia Shawkat, René Auberjonois, Toby Jones, Ewen Bremner, Lily Gladstone, Gary Farmer, Ted Rooney, and Scott Shepherd. SYNOPSIS: A skilled cook has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon, though he only finds true […]
R.I.P. Rene Auberjonois (1940 – 2019)
American character actor Rene Auberjonois has passed away aged 79 after a battle with lung cancer, his family have revealed. The New York-born Auberjonois began his career in the theatre in the 1960s, and made his feature film debut in Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H. in 1970, portraying the character of as Father Mulcahy. He would go […]
Movie Review – What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (2018)
What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, 2018 Directed by Ira Steven Behr and David Zappone Featuring Nana Visitor, Rene Auberjonois, Alexander Siddig, Terry Farrell, Michael Dorn, Colm Meaney, Cirroc Lofton, and Armin Shimerman Deep Space Nine is considered the “dark Star Trek.” Ask most any Trek fan and you’ll […]
Blu-ray Review – Images (1972)
Images, 1972. Directed by Robert Altman. Starring Susannah York, Cathryn Harrison, Hugh Millais, Rene Auberjonois, and Marcel Bozzuffi. SYNOPSIS: A schizophrenic housewife has visions of different people in her life and starts to kill them off, not being sure if they are real or not. Essentially, Images is a horror film from a director not […]