‘Galaxy Quest’ – ‘Cliffhanger’.

‘Galaxy Quest’ – ‘Cliffhanger’.

April 26, 2023 Alan Royle 0

   GALAXY QUEST (1999)                  This delightful comedy parallels some of what happened in real life regarding the relationships between certain cast members in the sixties sci-fi hit TV series Star Trek. The stars of the fictional series Galaxy Quest resemble the stars and characters of the original Star Trek series. […]

MEMORABLE MOVIE DIALOGUE – PT1.

MEMORABLE MOVIE DIALOGUE – PT1.

April 17, 2023 Alan Royle 4

                     TOMBSTONE (1993) Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday discuss gunfighter/killer Johnny Ringo: Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell): ‘What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does?’ Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer):  ‘A man like Ringo has got […]

‘THE POWER OF THE DOG’/’A TIME TO KILL’

‘THE POWER OF THE DOG’/’A TIME TO KILL’

April 11, 2023 Alan Royle 1

  THE POWER OF THE DOG (2021)                       I have watched an awful lot of movies in my life. Some were quite brilliant; others less so, but they generally held my interest for much of their screen-time because there was usually the expectation that something would happen sooner or later. Not […]

‘ROAD TO PERDITION’ (2002)

‘ROAD TO PERDITION’ (2002)

March 27, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  ROAD TO PERDITION (2002)                     This superb movie looks at organized crime from a different perspective. Tom Hanks portrays the ‘hero’, Mike Sullivan, a man with a heavy reputation who works as an enforcer for mob boss John Rooney (played by Paul Newman). Rooney has raised him since Mike […]

‘THE KING’S SPEECH’ & ‘ELF’.

‘THE KING’S SPEECH’ & ‘ELF’.

March 12, 2023 Alan Royle 2

  THE KING’S SPEECH (2010) Every once in a while the movie business exceeds its own expectations. The King’s Speech provides us with one such instance. I admit that I am a sucker for a story based on historical fact, so it is no surprise that I took to this […]

‘THE TEN COMMANDMENTS’ (1956)

‘THE TEN COMMANDMENTS’ (1956)

March 3, 2023 Alan Royle 6

  THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956)       Readers of this blog may recall my scathing assessment of the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger, in which I described it as the most ludicrous, far-fetched story in movie history. I still insist it is woefully inadequate, yet when compared to C B DeMille’s 1956 […]

‘SINK THE BISMARCK!’ (1960)

‘SINK THE BISMARCK!’ (1960)

February 16, 2023 Alan Royle 0

   SINK THE BISMARCK! (1960)                  One thing the British have always been very good at doing, is making World War Two movies about actual events, particularly those that have anything to do with the Royal Navy, pictures such as In Which We Serve (1942), The Cruel Sea (1953), The Man […]

‘MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY’ (1962)

‘MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY’ (1962)

February 4, 2023 Alan Royle 2

  MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1962)           This particular version of the happenings aboard the British ship Bounty in 1787; starring Marlon Brando as the mutinous Lt. Fletcher Christian and Trevor Howard as the irascible Lieutenant/ Captain Bligh, had to be one of the most unhappy movie sets in the history […]

‘STAKEOUT’ (1987) & ‘THE WINSLOW BOY’ (1999)

‘STAKEOUT’ (1987) & ‘THE WINSLOW BOY’ (1999)

January 14, 2023 Alan Royle 4

             STAKEOUT (1987)               This is a pretty slick action/comedy directed by John Badham, the man who gave us Saturday Night Fever (1977). Most red-blooded males would probably agree that if you were a cop given a two-week stakeout assignment that required you to spy on someone, if that someone […]

‘MAMMA MIA!’ & ‘MARY POPPINS’

‘MAMMA MIA!’ & ‘MARY POPPINS’

December 27, 2022 Alan Royle 6

  MAMMA MIA! (2008)                                                                                  It will probably come as a shock to readers (it certainly did to me) to learn that this bloody awful musical became, in December 2008, the highest-grossing movie in UK history, surpassing Titanic (1997)! It has, however, since been passed by Avatar in 2009. […]