Showing posts with label Michael Caine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Caine. Show all posts

Sunday, February 20, 2022

What a disaster: Can't you see the morning after?


BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE

1979
Directed by Irwin Allen
Written by Nelson Gidding (based on the novel by Paul Gallico)

Spoilers: moderate

Monday, February 7, 2022

Channing Tatum's least favorite movie of all time


GAMBIT

1966
Directed by Ronald Neame
Written by Sidney Carroll, Jack Davies, Alvin Sargent, and Shirley MacLaine

Spoilers: well, I'm going to discuss the beginning whether they like it or not, soapparently"catastrophically severe"

Monday, July 12, 2021

What a disaster: Fear of a bee planet


THE SWARM

1978
Directed by Irwin Allen
Written by Stirling Silliphant (based on the novel by Arthur Herzog)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Hang on a minute lads—I've got a great idea


THE ITALIAN JOB

1969
Directed by Peter Collinson
Written by Troy Kennedy Martin

Spoiler alert: a tiny bit more than "moderate"

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Brad Pitt ate my sandwich


KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE

The excess is even wretcheder and the provocations even more hollow, but they're in service of something greater anyway.  Sometimes all it takes is a few scenes to make a movie.  On rare occasions, it takes just one.  Matthew Vaughn and Mark Millar (more the former than the latter) have done it again.

2015
Directed by Matthew Vaughn
Written by Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn (based on the comic The Secret Service by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons)
With Colin Firth (Galahad/Harry Hart), Taron Egerton (Gary "Eggsy" Unwin), Michael Caine (Arthur), Mark Strong (Merlin), Jack Davenport (Lancelot), Sofia Boutella (Gazelle), and Samuel L. Jackson (Valentine)

Spoiler alert: mild

Sunday, January 4, 2015

This play's the thing


DEATHTRAP

Between Rope and Grand Piano, there was Deathtrap.

1982
Directed by Sidney Lumet
Written by Jay Presson Allen (based on the stageplay by Ira Levin)
With Michael Caine (Sidney Bruhl), Christopher Reeve (Clifford Anderson), Dyna Cannon (Myra Bruhl), Irene Worth (Helga van Dorp), and Henry Jones (Porter Milgrim)

Spoiler alert: mild