The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Robert Wise wasn’t just directing another potential pathogen disaster movie in The Andromeda Strain (1971); he was taking incorporation of scientific realism into a trending…
Author: Ernest Dempsey
Children of Men (2006) – Sci-Fi or Simply Dystopian?
More than 10 years ago, when I first saw Children of Men (2006) in my sci-fi cinema class at the college, my first thought was…
Mackenna’s Gold (1969)
Mackenna’s Gold is beyond reach. Mackenna’s Gold goes beyond adventure. This tagline for J. Lee Thompson’s classical western Mackenna’s Gold (1969) fits neatly in its…
The White Tower (1950)
The good old adventure drama The White Tower, directed by Ted Tetzlaff, is a journey up the hill of a mountain as much as one…
Directorial Ethics: How Much Should Actors Take It?
Film directors can be friendly or bossy, even insensitive and outright cruel. But how far can they go to beat their desired performance out of…
Fallen Angel (1945)
Otto Preminger’s Fallen Angel came out a year after Laura and shares its twist in the mystery though not exactly in the status of the…
Breakdown (1997)
Jonathan Mostow and Sam Montgomery wrote a captivating story that was directed by Mostow into the 1997 thriller Breakdown. Featuring Kurt Russell in an intense…
Deadly Heroes (1993)
Menahem Golan’s Deadly Heroes is a less-known action film from 1993 with a screenplay co-authored by Damian Lee and Gregory Lee along with Golan. The…
High Anxiety (1977)
Lovers of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies are no stranger to anxiety; the Hitchcockian thrillers kept them on the edge of their seats. Mel Brooks, an admirer…
Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story (1994)
Domestic abuse has been and continues to be the one of the most widely existing crimes in America and abroad with no end in sight.…