Tag: michaelcaine
70s Rewind: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING, Sean Connery, Of Course
Sean Connery and Michael Caine star in a blissfully cinematic adventure, directed by John Huston.
Sundance 2020 Review: COME AWAY Disappoints on Almost Every Level
Angelina Jolie, David Oyelowo, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Michael Caine star in an adventure directed by Brenda Chapman.
70s Rewind: THE WILBY CONSPIRACY, Poitier and Caine Go on the Run
Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine go on the run in South Africa in an unlikely political drama, directed by Ralph Nelson.
70s Rewind: THE BLACK WINDMILL, Minor Genre Thrills
Michael Caine stars in Don Siegel's British suspense drama.
Review: DEAR DICTATOR, Not Teen Movie Torture
It’s been said that movies are a universal medium, capable of connecting to the ways, plights, and struggles of different cultures. “A machine of empathy” and all that. Although Dear Dictator, a relatively unlikely teen comedy, centrally involves a foreign...
70s Rewind: HARRY AND WALTER GO TO NEW YORK, Only to Fizzle, Curiously
They sing! They dance! They romance! They ... fizzle, curiously, as it happens ... Harry (James Caan) and Walter (Elliott Gould) have been in vaudeville for years, but they have failed to make much of an impact. In 1892 Massachusetts,...
Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Michael Gambon and Ray Winstone in Talks to be The DIAMOND GEEZERS
Deadline is reporting that four of the UK's great elder acting statesmen are returning to a life in crime. Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Michael Gambon and Ray Winstone are in talks to joing Working Title's untitled film about an...
Review: YOUTH... Without Youth
The older one gets, the less anything matters. So goes the observed mentality of the two main characters of Youth. Wealth is evident, opulence is everywhere, yet the souls of these people have only grown increasingly wanting. So wanting that that...
Review: THE LAST WITCH HUNTER, A Brightly Burning Candle
A good, fun ride for what it is, The Last Witch Hunter is the kind of movie that starts to fall apart as soon as the credits roll. Perhaps the closest, easiest comparison is to Tommy Wirkola's Hansel & Gretel:...
Music Is All Michael Caine Understands In Gorgeous First Trailer For Paolo Sorrentino's YOUTH
Hot off his Best Foreign Language film Oscar win for The Great Beauty last year, Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino brings us Youth (aka La Giovinezza), starring Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel as two old friends holidaying in the Alps. Fred...
Review: KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE Tastes Pretty Yummy
The world of espionage has become a bit dour of late. Our postmodern proclivities have caught up with us, and thanks to our impossible missions, our Bourne fascinations and a Daniel Craig-ified Bond, we've lost a little bit of the...
The Many Faces Of Michael Caine
Last week, Interstellar was released in many parts of the world, a film with a fine cast indeed, among them the instantly recognizable Michael Caine. At 81 years of age, Michael Caine has more than five decades of golden classics...
Review: STONEHEARST ASYLUM Offers Pleasant Darkness But Little Else
Despite a cast that includes Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, and Kate Beckinsale, and a noteworthy director in Brad Anderson, Stonehearst Asylum feels like a high-class 1970s TV movie. Anderson remains in my mind as a director of independent genre movies...
First INTERSTELLAR Trailer: Christopher Nolan Sends Farmer Matthew McConaughey Into Space
We're all going to die unless Matthew McConaughey saves us. The first full trailer for Christopher Nolan's Interstellar identifies a crisis on Earth that has led former pilot and engineer Cooper, played by a weathered-looking McConaughey, to become a farmer. Now...
INTERSTELLAR: The Teaser For Nolan's Latest Reaches For The Stars
With another banner year behind him, Matthew McConaughey's next big project is Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. A year out from release, what we see today is indeed a teaser. But with its somber and inspiring tone, featuring McConaughey voice over and...
New To Netflix: Time Travel, Memory, Cloning and BEST WORST MOVIE
This weeks entry of New To Netflix picks some of the obscure and strange films from the various territories around the world. At this point in time, I would say that Netflix remains at its best for the new (ish)...
Watch Steve Coogan And Rob Brydon Impersonate Michael Caine While Dubbed In Spanish
Call this today's moment of cognitive disconnect.As any regular reader of this site will know, we are big fans of Steve Coogan in these parts and particularly big fans when he teams up with director Michael Winterbottom. He did just...
Review: JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
Taffy. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, the latest cinematic adaptation of an adventure first told by Jules Verne in 1874, moves as though it's picking its way delicately through a field of taffy, not wanting to leave any impression of...
HARRY BROWN Review: an old man's revenge
When I heard everyone's favorite butler was going to star in a revenge flick I wasn't immediately interested. Not that Harry Brown seemed like a bad film, just not a very interesting one. Good reviews and critiques kept pouring in...
HARRY BROWN review
There is a scene in Harry Brown when the titular pensioner and war veteran has had enough of all the hoodie-hoodlums terrorizing his run-down neighborhood that he goes to buy some fire-arms and fight back himself. The 'arms merchants' -...
