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 […]

TV WESTERNS – PT9.

TV WESTERNS – PT9.

October 27, 2020 Alan Royle 0

  THE COWBOYS (1974) 12 EPISODES                  The success of the John Wayne feature film The Cowboys (1972) encouraged Warner Bros. to develop the story into a television series in 1974 for ABC. Unfortunately it was cancelled after a single season. Jim Davis played Marshal Bill Winter; Diana Douglas, (a […]

LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – PT5.

LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – PT5.

April 6, 2020 Alan Royle 2

The 1986 film Heartbreak Ridge is a pretty lame war picture that culminates in the real-life USMC invasion of the Caribbean island nation of Grenada in October 1983. The assault was successful inside four days but was not the ‘walk in the park’ depicted in this picture, although the outcome […]

THE GOOD OLD SIXTIES

July 4, 2019 Alan Royle 2

  I was a ‘baby-boomer’, born in 1947, and grew up in Fremantle, Western Australia, in an era when drive-in movies were the big thing during the 1960s. My mates and my brothers and I would zoom off to the drive-in, two or three times a week during the summer […]

MEMORABLE PERFORMANCES – PT1

November 8, 2018 Alan Royle 2

  Every once in a while a picture or a performance comes along that seems to possess a bit of movie magic. Usually it is through a combination of things; an above average screenplay boasting memorable one-liners, a particularly charismatic star in just the right setting to suit his or […]

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FAVOURITE AUSTRALIAN-BORN ACTRESSES – PT2.

July 17, 2018 Alan Royle 0

FAVOURITE AUSTRALIAN-BORN ACTRESSES – PT2 My favourite top 10 Australian-born actresses:           10        TERESA PALMER      (Adelaide, South Australia 1986)                           Teresa & Stuart Dew                      […]

SIXTIES MOVIE TRIVIA – PT4.

April 26, 2018 Alan Royle 5

     Joan Collins & Bing Crosby Rumours abounded that Joan Collins was having an affair with Bing Crosby during the making of Road to Hong Kong (1962). Nothing could have been further from the truth. She found him disgusting, particularly his pipe-smoker’s habit of clearing his throat by spitting globules […]

My 30 favorite screen villains – PT2 (20-11)

April 12, 2018 Alan Royle 0

20        JOAQUIN PHOENIX as Commodus in GLADIATOR (2000) I have often wondered if Joaquin Phoenix resents Russell Crowe for stealing his thunder in Gladiator. Crowe was so good in the title role that Joaquin tended to be forever in his shadow which must have been frustrating because Phoenix really gave […]

When is an Indian not an Indian? (PT 1)

February 14, 2017 Alan Royle 4

  Until around about the eighties very few actual Native Americans were employed playing Indians in Hollywood movies. Thankfully, since then that has changed and there are numerous Native American actors making healthy livings in westerns and other genres. Over the next few days I shall examine some of those […]