In 1951, producer Howard Hawks and director Christian Nyby adapted John W. Campbell Jr.’s novella Who Goes There? into the science fiction classic The Thing from Another World, unfortunately, practical and visual effects of the time were not able to pull off the shapeshifting alien monstrosity from Campell’s story and this resulted in James Arness…
Tag: Kurt Russell
The Christmas Chronicles (2018)
With the holiday season upon us, this means our television viewing will most likely consist of some Christmas classics, but between the multiple showings of It’s a Wonderful Life or the twenty-four-hour marathons of A Christmas Story, we will also be bombarded with a boatload of “fresh” Christmas content, ones that will be vying to…
Welcome to Medfield College
Having a connected universe in a series of movies has almost become a cottage industry in Hollywood these days, the best current example of this being the Marvel Cinematic Universe which has raked in billions of dollars so far, but the idea is certainly nothing new.
The Deadly Tower (1975) – Review
Over the years Kurt Russell has played some very dangerous characters – the anti-hero Snake Plissken in Escape from New York, the suicidal Captain O’Neil from Stargate, and the psychotic Stuntman Mike from Tarantino’s Death Proof – so it’s almost hard to believe that for the first half of his career he was mostly known…
The Strongest Man in the World (1975) – Review
In this last installment of the Dexter Riley Trilogy we once again find Medfield College embroiled in financial problems and scientific shenanigans; it’s clear by this point that the formula is getting a bit tired and the studio wisely decided to end the madcap adventures of Dexter and friends here.