It’s been a long time since the last update on Journey to China: The Mystery of the Iron Mask – now titled simply The Iron Mask – but the film is set for release in the UK this coming April and so we now have our first trailer. The highlight of the footage is Arnold […]
Movie Review – The Sonata (2020)
The Sonata, 2020. Directed by Andrew Desmond. Starring Freya Tingley, Simon Abkarian, James Faulkner, Rutger Hauer, Catherine Schaub-Abkarian, and Matt Barber. SYNOPSIS: A young violinist unravels her long lost father’s past, triggering dark forces that reach beyond her imagination. Music and horror belong forever entangled in a delicate dance that ends in pure unbridled evil. […]
Poster and trailer for The Sonata starring Freya Tingley and Rutger Hauer
Ahead of its release next month, a poster and trailer have arrived online for the upcoming thriller The Sonata which stars Freya Tingley as a gifted musician who discovers her late father’s (Rutger Hauer) last musical score that is riddled with mysterious symbols that unravel an evil secret; take a look here… After being informed […]
November 2019: Welcome to Blade Runner
Tom Jolliffe looks back at Blade Runner in the month and year it was set… Remember when 2014 was coming to an end? There was a clamour of snorting giggles as people bemoaned the impending 2015’s lack of self drying clothes, flying cars, hydropizza and hover-boards. Granted, Back to the Future Part II did get […]
A Tribute to Rutger Hauer
Tom Jolliffe pays tribute to Rutger Hauer after the news of his passing… I’ve been a huge fan of Rutger Hauer from the very first time I watched Blade Runner. The film shouldn’t have connected so instantly with me, for someone so young, but it did. Though it was Harrison Ford a.k.a. Solo, a.k.a. Indiana […]
R.I.P. Rutger Hauer (1944 – 2019)
It has been announced that prolific Dutch actor Rutger Hauer, perhaps best known for his roles in Blade Runner and The Hitcher, passed away aged 75 on Friday, July 19th, after a short illness. Hauer rose to fame in his home country when he was cast as the lead in the Paul Verhoeven medieval action […]
Movie Review – The Sisters Brothers (2018)
The Sisters Brothers, 2018. Directed by Jacques Audiard. Starring John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Riz Ahmed, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rutger Hauer, Rebecca Root and Carol Kane. SYNOPSIS: In 1850s Oregon, the infamous duo of assassins, Eli and Charlie Sisters, chase a gold prospector and his unexpected ally. Ah, the western, a once hyper-popular genre reduced to […]
Movie Review – The Sisters Brothers (2018)
The Sisters Brothers, 2018. Directed by Jacques Audiard. Starring John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Riz Ahmed, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rutger Hauer, Rebecca Root and Carol Kane. SYNOPSIS: A pair of sibling hitmen embark on a lengthy journey across the American West on the tale of a gold prospector who stole from their boss. The year is […]
The Importance of Film Archives and Curated Selections
Tom Jolliffe looks at the importance of archiving seminal films, and giving new life to forgotten classics and cult titles…. Cinema history is etched with key figures. Mould breakers, revolutionaries, and visionaries. Fritz Lang, leading the German expressionist era. Orson Welles breaking tradition and Hollywood protocols. Maybe Brando thundering an arrow through the conventions of […]
Movie Review – The Sisters Brothers (2018)
The Sisters Brothers, 2018. Directed by Jacques Audiard. Starring John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed, Rebecca Root, Allison Tolman, Carol Kane, and Rutger Hauer. SYNOPSIS: In 1850s Oregon, a gold prospector is chased by the infamous duo of assassins, the Sisters brothers. Opening up with a scene of the infamous assassins known […]