Review: All The President's Men (Pakula, 1976)

Part of the Top10Films: Dustin Hoffman feature

Dir. Alan J. Pakula; screenplay by William Goldman; starring Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Jason Robards, Ned Beatty

My first cinematic introduction to the Watergate saga arrived in the form a simpleton named Forrest Gump phoning the police after seeing some people burglarising the building across from [...]

January 14th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Genre - Drama, Reviews, Time Period - 1960 to 1979 | Leave a comment

Withnail and I (Robinson, 1987)

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Dir. Bruce Robinson; screenplay by Bruce Robinson; starring Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths, Ralph Brown

For many, the first introduction to Bruce Robinson’s tale of friendship at the end of the ‘greatest decade in history’, appears not in the form of a video, a curry, and a [...]

January 8th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Genre - Comedy, Reviews, Time Period - 1980s to Present | Leave a comment

Review: Straw Dogs (Peckinpah, 1971)

Part of our “Top10Films: Dustin Hoffman” feature

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Dir. Sam Peckinpah; written by Sam Peckinpah, David Zelag Goodman; starring Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Jim Norton, Ken Hutchison, Donald Webster, Del Henney, David Warner

“I don’t know my way home,” says simpleton Henry Niles to a dishevelled David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) at the [...]

January 5th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Reviews, Time Period - 1960 to 1979 | One comment

Review: Aliens (Cameron, 1986)

The film is a ‘nightmare’ envisioned on the screen – call it Ripley’s nightmare, indeed she’s asleep when we first meet her at the beginning and she’s asleep when we leave her at the end. It’s one of those dreams where you’re being chased and you just can’t seem to wake yourself up, as the [...]

November 27th, 2009 | Category: Reviews | 2 comments

The Goonies (Donner, 1985)

Companion review for Top 10 American Coming of Age Dramas

In a suburban home, in a dusty dark attic, behind some damp old boxes, in a wooden picture frame lies the key to an adventure only dreams can create, but in Richard Donner’s wonderful 1985 ensemble film, the dream is reality. From the imaginations of two [...]

November 20th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Reviews | Leave a comment
 
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