Tom Jolliffe looks at whether the days of the superstar headliner are disappearing with audiences more drawn to franchises or film concepts than the stars attached… You could say it started in Hollywood’s classic era. The movie star. The big name. They were in some ways manufactured, or at least their image was. Rock Hudson […]
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, […]
Greg Berlanti to direct Rock Hudson biopic
Not content with producing virtually every series on television, Love, Simon director Greg Berlanti has signed on for his latest big screen project, a biopic of Hollywood legend Rock Hudson for Universal Pictures. Based on the upcoming Mark Griffin book All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson, the film will explore the life […]
