Nope. NO evidence of intent at all. Just incompetence on the part of the Armorer who is now jailed.
Negligence wouldn't make for a very interesting episode at all
John Sayles' charming film adaptation of a 50s novel by Rosalie K. Fry about an out of the way isle where the mythical Selkies are said to wander. Haskell Wexler's cinematography is lovely as is Mason Daring's music.
The film received glowing reviews but never quite got the audience it...
I can certainly see FORBIDDEN PLANET and THIS ISLAND EARTH getting the 4K treatment. The other two - probably not any time soon. They just don't have the marquee value, although 27TH DAY should be more seen.
Remembering Barbara Rush, who passed away this week....
Jack Arnold's seminal film, based on a Ray Bradbury story really set a standard for a lot of 50s sci-fi cinema. The isolated location. A mysterious object in the sky. Alien takeovers. The man of science who nobody believes. And, of course...
JOE FLAHERTY's passing today is incredibly sad for me. SCTV is one of the greatest influences on me in comedy. Flaherty was a key member playing the mythical channel's Station Manager Guy Caballero - he made an unlikeable character bearable and, most importantly, hysterically funny. Sammy...
Kurosawa's brilliant adaptation of Ed McBain's King's Ransom. Kurosawa and his team of writers successfully transposed the story to Japan and created an original framework. The structure is superb with the viewer's expectations challenged with some surprising turns.
Toshiro Mifune leads the...
my full take on it:
SKINAMARINK (2023) Full marks to Writer-Director Kyle Edward Ball. He came up with a concept and doggedly keeps to it, with virtually no concessions to his viewers. SKINAMARINK (named after a similarly titled old nursery rhyme) is an experimental arthouse horror...
When DUNE Part One debuted, I gave it a grade of 'Incomplete'. It was decent, well-mounted, but there wasn't enough that was definitive to give it final marks. With Part Two, Director Denis Villenueve earns a solid passing grade.
After a brief prologue, which introduces Florence Pugh as...