charlton heston

I Am Legend: Charlton & Lydia Heston On The Set Of THE OMEGA MAN

On-screen Charlton Heston appears to have been cut from granite – strong, powerful…biblical. Heston mixes strength and intelligence with old fashioned masculinity. His illustrious career has seen him star in some of the greatest [...]

June 16, 2020

Behind The Scenes: James Cameron Working On The Special Effects For John Carpenter’s ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK

John Carpenter‘s 1981 release, Escape From New York is almost a continuation of the type of sci-fi films that Charlton Heston made in the 1960s and 1970s (Planet Of The Apes, Omega Man, Soylent Green), there’s a wonderful bleakness to [...]

April 29, 2020

The Best Movies To Watch During The Coronavirus Shutdown

The world is slowly shutting down due to COVID-19. The Coronavirus means a lot of people across the globe will be locking themselves in, self isolating and keeping away from the general population. These are unprecedented times. Cinemas across the [...]

March 16, 2020

Forget The Chariots! Behind The Scenes Of BEN-HUR With Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd

There’s something captivating about photographs of actors on-set doing something which is the antithesis of the character they are supposed to be portraying on-screen. This is even more exciting when it’s an older movie. Case in point [...]

November 9, 2019

Blu-ray Review: Do Not Forsake Classic Western HIGH NOON

With one of the greatest opening sequences in film history, High Noon kicks-off in an outstanding fashion and this 1952 film just gets better and better as it builds towards its climax. Director Fred Zinnemann delivers one of the great westerns of [...]

October 5, 2019

The Last Shall Be First & The First Last: THE OMEGA MAN

1971’s The Omega Man is the finest screen adaptation of Richard Matheson‘s I Am Legend. The dystopian sci-fi movie might differ from Matheson’s novella, but it keeps the tone and the texture of what makes the tale so good. Charlton [...]

September 1, 2019

Review: Kurt Russell Is Snake Plissken In John Carpenter’s ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK

When you look at how action cinema developed over the 1980s, it’s now clear to see that Escape From New York is one of the films which established the template for the muscular action hero. John Carpenter’s 1981 film (his second of many with [...]

November 3, 2018

Charlton Heston Narrates The New Teaser For WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES

God bless the late Charlton Heston. One of the Hollywood legend’s most enduring films is Planet Of The Apes – and now he’s narrating the new teaser trailer for the franchise’s latest instalment, War For The Planet of The [...]

May 15, 2017

Trailer: The Cinematic Anti-Christ Will Arrive With The Remake Of BEN-HUR

Man-o-man. This trailer for Ben-Hur is everything I feared it would be – and worse. CGI-d to within an inch of its life, this will never even be mentioned in the same breath as William Wyler/Charlton Heston’s 1959 epic. It’ll be forgotten [...]

March 16, 2016

BEN-HUR Remake: Huston We Have A Problem

Actors don’t get much tougher or better than Charlton Heston. The man was granite, cut from sacred stone, a cinematic icon that will forever be associated with the Biblical Hollywood epic (read about Charlton Heston’s career). Heston’s [...]

September 17, 2014

Blu-ray Review: Charlton Heston In The Historical Epic THE WAR LORD

Charlton Heston is the master of the movie epic (sorry Russell Crowe) and The War Lord is a film that really highlights this. Teaming with Franklin. J. Schaffner for the first time, Heston plays Chrysagon de la Cruex, a Knight charge with ruling a [...]

April 18, 2014

Blu-ray Review: Roddy Piper’s HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN Is An Enjoyable Slice Of ‘80s Cheese

Hell Comes To Frogtown is a cult 1988 straight-to-video actioner starring wrestler (Rowdy) Roddy Piper. Is it high art? No, far from it – but it is an enjoyable slice of ‘80s cheese. Piper plays Sam Hell, a bad-ass wandering the wastelands of a [...]

February 2, 2014

Top 10 Movie Stars Of All Time

There is a difference between what makes a great movie star and what makes a great actor. While the stars on this list are undoubtedly good actors, they have a something extra which makes them great movie stars. Therefore, wonderful actors like Gene [...]

September 1, 2012

Charlton Heston: Movie Star

The words icon and legend are bandied about a great deal in modern society. Most of the time they mean nothing or at the very least they are simple hyperbole. However, when these words are used to describe Charlton Heston they come across as an [...]

May 14, 2012

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