 | Treasure Island (1990) [Read More ...]
Description: A tale about a fatherless boy finding dramatically different father figures throughout a remarkable adventure, Treasure Island is an entertaining coming-of-age story, with themes of family, loyalty, friendship, trust, and honesty at its core. While Robert Louis Stevenson's class... |
 | Wreck of the Mary Deare [Read More ...]
Review: "Mary Deere" should be on DVD.:I'd like to add my voice to that of the others who are hoping for a widescreen DVD release of this excellent film. It was available that way some years ago on laserdisc and it looked great. Heston, Cooper and Harris work extremely well together; the... |
 | Awakening, The [Read More ...]
An archaeologist on a dig in the Egyptian pyramids releases a curse that causes the spirit of a murderous princess to enter the body of the man's daughter. |
 | The Agony and the Ecstasy [Read More ...]
Description: Carol Reed (The Third Man) directed this 1965 portrait of the relationship between Michelangelo (Charlton Heston) and Pope Julius II (Rex Harrison), who commissioned the artist to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Based on a novel by Irving Stone, the script plods along, juggling... |
 | Jack London's Call of the Wild [Read More ...]
Call of the Wild:Great adaptation of the Jack London classic novel. I just love Charleton Heston in this role. He looks liek the rugged kind of man you would see in Alaska back then and even now. |
 | Call of the Wild [Read More ...]
Call of the Wild:Great adaptation of the Jack London classic novel. I just love Charleton Heston in this role. He looks liek the rugged kind of man you would see in Alaska back then and even now. |
![]() | Jack London's Call of the Wild (Sp) [Read More ...]
Call of the Wild:Great adaptation of the Jack London classic novel. I just love Charleton Heston in this role. He looks liek the rugged kind of man you would see in Alaska back then and even now. |
 | Call of the Wild [Read More ...]
Call of the Wild:Great adaptation of the Jack London classic novel. I just love Charleton Heston in this role. He looks liek the rugged kind of man you would see in Alaska back then and even now. |
![]() | Gray Lady Down [Read More ...]
Review: Tired and routine disaster movie:At times feeling like Airport '77 without the plane or the all-star cast, 1978's Gray Lady Down came out in the dog days of the disaster genre when Charlton Heston's career as a big screen leading man was on its last legs, and there's a sense of t... |
 | The Ten Commandments [Read More ...]
Description: Legendary silent film director Cecil B. DeMille didn't much alter the way he made movies after sound came in, and this 1956 biblical drama is proof of that. While graced with such 1950s niceties as VistaVision and Technicolor, The Ten Commandments (DeMille had already filmed an e... |
![]() | Soylent Green [Read More ...]
Description: Charlton Heston seemed fond of starring in apocalyptic science-fiction films in the late 1960s and early '70s. There was Planet of the Apes, of course, and The Omega Man. But there was also 1973's Soylent Green, a strange detective film (based on Harry Harrison's Make Room! Make ... |
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 | The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge [Read More ...]
Description: Richard Lester's 1975 sequel to his romping Three Musketeers--released the year before--reunites his swashbuckling cast for a decidedly less happy and more somber experience. This time, D'Artagnan (Michael York) and his Musketeer mentors (Richard Chamberlain, Oliver Reed, Frank F... |
 | Solar Crisis [Read More ...]
Description: Not everyone will have the patience for Solar Crisis; in many ways, it lands on the not-so-good end of the B-movie spectrum. Possibly something got lost in translation between the American crew and the Japanese producers. The premise: a giant solar flare is threatening to end all... |
 | 55 Days at Peking [Read More ...]
Review: NICHOLAS RAY, OPUS 20:**** 1963. Directed by Nicholas Ray. Two nominations for the Oscars (Dimitri Tiomkin). After King of Kings, this is the second Samuel Bronston production in a row for Nicholas Ray who, at the age of 52, delivers with 55 DAYS AT PEKING his last film. Peking, ... |
 | Solar Crisis [Read More ...]
Description: Not everyone will have the patience for Solar Crisis; in many ways, it lands on the not-so-good end of the B-movie spectrum. Possibly something got lost in translation between the American crew and the Japanese producers. The premise: a giant solar flare is threatening to end all... |
 | The Three Musketeers: The Queen's Diamonds [Read More ...]
Description: Director Richard Lester strikes the perfect balance between slapstick and swashbuckling swordplay in this whimsical adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's grand adventure. Michael York, all innocence and wide-eyed chivalry as young D'Artagnan, makes quite an impression on his first day ... |
 | Alaska [Read More ...]
Description: Director Fraser Heston captures the danger and beauty of Alaska in this adventurous family film about two kids who embark on a very personal rescue mission. Former 747 pilot Jake Barnes (Dirk Benedict) moved away from a fast-paced Chicago lifestyle with his two children, Jessi... |
 | The Battle of Midway [Read More ...]
Description: Six months after the Japanese destroyed the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, the Americans discovered the Japanese were planning to seize the Naval base at Midway Island--a perfect staging point for invading Hawaii or the mainland. Outnumbered four to one, the Americans won a... |
 | Planet of the Apes [Read More ...]
Description: Many early science fiction films are now, quite inadvertently (and in most cases undeservedly), objects of camp attention: we laugh at the silly makeup, tin-can special effects, and the naive "high-tech" dialogue. Planet of the Apes is no such film. Its intelligent script, fright... |
