Tag: paul newman

Kevin Costner and Robin Wright Penn in Message In A Bottle

Notebook Reviews: MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE

Luis Mandoki – 1999. Message In A Bottle is a well composed romantic-drama. The central casting of Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn and Paul Newman is a good one and this helps keep the film afloat when threatens to slip into a sea of [...]

August 10, 2024

Clint Eastwood and Don Siegel. Dirty Harry.

Behind The Scenes: Clint Eastwood & Don Siegel On The Set Of 1971’s DIRTY HARRY

Director Don Siegel‘s 1971 cop thriller, Dirty Harry has now become an iconic slice of cinema and it set the template for loose cannon detective movies. Starring Clint Eastwood, the film sees SFPD Inspector ‘Dirty’ Harry Callahan [...]

August 4, 2024

Behind The Scenes Paul Newman & Robert Redford On The Set Of BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID

George Roy Hill’s Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid gave the western genre a breath of fresh air when it was released back in 1969. Along with The Graduate (1967), Bonnie And Clyde (1967) and Easy Rider (1969), the film helped to point [...]

July 20, 2022

Notebook Reviews: TWILIGHT

Robert Benton – 1998. Twilight is an excellent modern day film noir with a hugely impressive cast. The great Paul Newman leads the way but Robert Benton‘s film also stars the mighty James Garner, Gene Hackman, Susan Sarandon, Reese [...]

September 15, 2021

Book Review: JOHN GUILLERMIN: THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE MOVIES

Billed as a book on ‘one of the best Hollywood directors nobody knows’, John Guillermin: The Man, The Myth, The Movies is a fascinating look at the life and career of the director behind such films as The Towering Inferno, King Kong [...]

December 30, 2020

Behind The Scenes: John Guillermin Directs Paul Newman & Steve McQueen On The Set Of THE TOWERING INFERNO

John Guillermin’s The Towering Inferno is one of the defining disaster movies of the 1970s. The Paul Newman/Steve McQueen led film is an epic piece of film-making and John McTiernan’s Die Hard owes quite a bit to Guillermin’s [...]

December 7, 2020

Blu-ray Review: Dwayne Johnson Can’t Rescue Soulless Disaster Movie SAN ANDREAS

Earthquake disaster movie San Andreas delivers a big budget special effects spectacle, however it fails to register on any other level. Director Brad Peyton’s film looks good but after a while the CG-created mayhem bores to the point of tedium. [...]

October 11, 2015

Poster And Trailer: Robert Redford And Nick Nolte Take A WALK IN THE WOODS

Robert Redford is one of our all time great movie stars and Nick Nolte is an actor who could have been a star, but he shunned the limelight in favour of becoming a (grizzled) character actor. They share the screen in Ken Kwapis’ A Walk In The [...]

May 29, 2015