GREAT MOVIE DIALOGUE – PT2.

GREAT MOVIE DIALOGUE – PT2.

December 17, 2020 Alan Royle 0

I have an unashamedly enormous admiration for New Yorker screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s work. His most notable achievements in television and movie scripts are indeed impressive. He wrote the Broadway play A Few Good Men and adapted it into a movie screenplay in 1992. The American President (1995) is another of […]

LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – PT9.

May 27, 2020 Alan Royle 2

One of my pet hates is watching a biopic about a great sportsperson’s life in which the actor chosen to represent him or her hasn’t the faintest idea how to play the sport in question! Admittedly, this is often the fault of casting, but that does not excuse the actor […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT16.

December 28, 2019 Alan Royle 0

HONOR BLACKMAN:                                                        [On Richard Burton] ‘You didn’t really want somebody in your bed quoting Shakespeare. Most of the time, he was drunk. We were staying in these little chalets and he came home one night and got into bed with me. I kicked him out eventually. He wasn’t my […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT148.

December 19, 2019 Alan Royle 0

Linda Kozlowski – then and now Most Australian men I know would agree that Linda Kozlowski was a ‘knockout’ in Crocodile Dundee (1986), and that Paul Hogan (Dundee) was one lucky guy to make her his second wife in 1990, after his divorce from wife number one came through. After […]

Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)

February 6, 2015 admin 0

Tom Hanks (as Charlie Wilson):’You know you’ve reached rock bottom when you’re told you have character flaws by a man who hanged his predecessor in a military coup.’