MAGIC MOVIE MOMENTS

MAGIC MOVIE MOMENTS

December 15, 2022 Alan Royle 0

  MAGIC MOVIE MOMENTS                    Few people who know me, family included, would describe me as particularly emotional, especially when it comes to the movies. An understandable assessment, of course, given my disillusionment with the industry and many (but certainly not all) of its employees and employers. However, every once in […]

;RANDOM QUOTES – PT55

RANDOM QUOTES – PT55

February 26, 2022 Alan Royle 0

  DENZEL WASHINGTON (1954 – ) [On working with young female co-stars]: ‘That ain’t fair, really. Michelle Pfeiffer hasn’t been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn’t like what a woman her age is offered. That’s a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and […]

50 MOVIES TO WATCH – PT1

60 MOVIES TO WATCH – PT1

November 10, 2021 Alan Royle 2

60 MOVIES WORTH WATCHING MORE THAN ONCE (PART ONE)      Back in 2005, I wrote my first book – Hollywood Warts ‘n’ All (volume 1). At the end of it I listed my favourite movies, my Top 50 of all time. I was 15 years younger then and the list was […]

KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY – PT4.

August 12, 2019 Alan Royle 5

  LLOYD BRIDGES (1913 – 98) Californian Lloyd Bridges was the son of parents who owned a movie theatre. Although his father wanted him to become a lawyer, young Lloyd set his sights firmly on an acting career while at the University of California in Los Angeles. He later worked […]

WAR PICTURES WORTH WATCHING – PT3.

February 14, 2019 Alan Royle 0

    James Mason & Danielle Darrieux  5 FINGERS (1952) World War Two – Espionage in Ankara, Turkey Possibly my favourite espionage movie of all time, thanks to the superbly convincing portrayal of the spy by James Mason and the delightful performance from Danielle Darrieux as the Countess Staviska (a […]

My favourite 50 movies of all time – Pt 1.

February 14, 2016 admin 4

  About ten years ago I published volume one of ‘Hollywood Warts ‘n’ All’, and in it I included my ‘Top 50 Movies’. I pointed out at the time that my choices were based entirely on which films gave me the most viewing pleasure; not on technical quality or directorial […]

The Best Movie Music?

May 4, 2015 admin 0

  Brief Note: At last, the day has arrived! After years of research, and months of hard work from my son Peter setting up this site and connecting with Amazon and Kindle, today we launch book two, ‘Movies Based on True Stories’. It is 626 pages in length (on Kindle), covers […]