Director – Steven Spielberg – 1997 – US – PG – 129m *** UK PAL laserdisc review. Originally published on London Calling Internet. Given the original Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993) movie left out some of the best bits of a brilliant book, had a plot so full of holes it was virtually transparent and […]
Director – David Cronenberg – 1991 – Canada – Cert. 18 – 115m ***** UK PAL laserdisc review. Originally published in London Calling Internet. See also my reviews in Film And Video – The Magazine and What’s On In London. Distributor Pioneer LDCE Cat No: PFLEB 30781 £9.99 BBFC Certificate 18 Running Time 85 min […]
Director – Byron Haskin – 1952 – US – Cert. PG – 82m **** RUK PAL laserdisc review, 1997. Originally published on London Calling Internet. Hungarian born George Pal, who produced the stop-frame Puppetoons shorts in the forties, chose H.G.Wells’ seminal alien invasion novel for his fourth live action production. Media wunderkind Orson Welles had already […]
Director – Joseph Newman – 1955 – US – Cert. PG – 83m ***** UK PAL laserdisc review, 1997. Originally published on London Calling Internet. Pioneer continue to plunder the Universal vaults for SF gems. I’d never heard of This Island Earth when a print turned up for a revival run at London’s late lamented […]
Director – Rudolph Maté – 1951 – US – Cert. U – 79m *** UK PAL laserdisc review, 1997. Originally published on London Calling Internet. Made the year before European-born producer George Pal’s The War Of The Worlds (Byron Haskin, 1953), this science-fictional disaster outing stages the end of the world by a star and […]
UK PAL Laserdisc review SURROUND SOUND MOVIE OF THE MONTH Dir Ridley Scott (1996) Starring Jeff Bridges, Caroline Goodall, John Savage, Scott Wolf, Balthazar Getty, Ryan Phillipe Dur 124min Dist Encore; £26.99 Cert 12 DS Widescreen 1961 and a group of final year High School students sign up for a yacht cruise halfway round the world […]
Director – David Cronenberg – 1983 – Canada – Cert. 18 – 85m ***** UK PAL laserdisc review. Originally appeared in London Calling Internet. See also my review for What’s On In London during the film’s revival at the ICA. Distributor Pioneer LDCE Cat No: PFLEB 36041 £19.99 BBFC Certificate 18 Director David Cronenberg (1982) […]
UK PAL laserdisc review. Originally published on London Calling Internet. Distributor Pioneer LDCE £19.99 BBFC Certificate 15 Director Peter Weir (1985) Starring Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, Danny Glover Running Time 108 min Dolby Surround Widescreen: 1.85:1 Chaptered? Yes CLV 2 Sides First American movie by Australian director Weir was also Ford’s first attempt […]