Although celebrating its 40th anniversary this year if you’ve not seen the film there be spoilers ahead. Mention the name of Steve McQueen and most people will think of The Great Escape. For me his best performance came ten years later when he appeared as the lead in Papillon. Strangely both films are about prisoners [...]
If there were a movie version of Desert Island Discs then The African Queen would be one of my eight choices. Based on the novel by C. S. Forester of Hornblower fame, it is a man and woman finding romance through adventure and adversity story. Nothing new in that one might say as it’s a [...]
Gregory Peck plays Dr Josef Mengele a sinister fanatical Nazi wanted for war crimes. He escaped capture after the war by fleeing to Brazil where he continued his illegal medical experiments on human subjects as part of a plan to create the Fourth Reich. Many years later he is ready to implement his plan and [...]
Eye of the Needle is a cracking movie thriller based on the best-selling novel by Ken Follett. The story, although fictional, is built around operation Fortitude the deception of the phoney army created in East Anglia to fool the Germans that the D-Day invasion would come at Calais rather than the Normandy beaches. The phoney [...]
If you have two hours available without any distraction then The Mission is a great movie to watch. A historical action film with a religious plot it captures the gulf between the civilized European colonialists and the underdeveloped indigenous population which they subdued. It takes place around the spectacular Iguazu Falls on the borders of [...]
