Malcolm McDowell. Photo: Warner Author Anthony Burgess allegedly complained that this film adaptation of his novel became so talked-about that it overshadowed everything else he did. Director Stanley Kubrick's film…
Three stories are told concurrently: Nina (Bahar Pars) tries to escape the cultural stranglehold that her family’s patriarch has on her; successful journalist Carina (Lia Boysen) tries to cover up…
Eva Henning and Anders Ek. Photo: Terrafilm In this time and age, it’s pretty much impossible to write a review of Hasse Ekman’s most accomplished film without talking about the…
The resistance against the alien visitors grows stronger but the group needs a breakthrough; meanwhile, Robin's (Blair Tefkin) affair with an alien officer has startling effects. The sequel to V…
Photo: Warner Some time after the premiere of Oliver Stone’s JFK, Roger Ebert ran into Walter Cronkite and received a “tongue-lashing” for having praised the film. In Cronkite’s view, it was full…
The weekly TV series that followed the first two miniseries showed the evil visitors making a dramatic comeback on Earth, reigniting the war; they were only hiding behind the moon.…
Greta Blackburn, Frank Ashmore and Jane Badler. Photo: NBC A major hit in several countries when first shown on TV, this miniseries frightened me to the degree that I could…
When Michael Laszlo (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is accused of having committed war crimes in Hungary 40 years earlier, his daughter, attorney Ann Talbot (Jessica Lange), decides to represent him. Another politically…
The fifth and concluding chapter in the original Planet of the Apes series presents apes as eloquent and bright as the ones in the first movie, a gigantic leap from…
The third, fourth and fifth films in this Planet of the Apes series explore how apes came to rule the Earth. In the near future, in the year of 1991,…