JOHN GUILLERMIN Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB. USA, 1976. Dino De Laurentiis Company. Screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr., based on the 1933 screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman, Ruth Rose, from an idea conceived by Merian C. Cooper, Edgar Wallace. Cinematography by Richard H. Kline. Produced by Dino De Laurentiis. Music by John Barry. Production … More King Kong (1976)
JAN TROELL Bil’s rating (out of 5): B. USA/Netherlands, 1979. Dino De Laurentiis Company, Famous Films. Screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr., based on the novel by James Norman Hall, Charles Nordhoff. Cinematography by Sven Nykvist. Produced by Dino De Laurentiis. Music by Nino Rota. Production Design by Danilo Donati. Costume Design by Danilo Donati. Film Editing by Sam O’Steen. Dino De Laurentiis was so satisfied … More Hurricane (1979)
RICK ROSENTHAL Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB. USA, 1981. Dino De Laurentiis Company, Universal Pictures. Screenplay by John Carpenter, Debra Hill, based on characters created by John Carpenter and Debra Hill. Cinematography by Dean Cundey. Produced by John Carpenter, Debra Hill. Music by John Carpenter, Alan Howarth. Production Design by J. Michael Riva. Costume Design by Jane Ruhm. Film Editing by Mark Goldblatt, … More Halloween 2 (1981)
BBB.5 (out of 5) Stylishly filmed sexpot thriller about an ex-con (Gina Gershon) who falls in love with a gangster’s moll (Jennifer Tilly) and teams up with her to take the mob for a crapload of money. Prior to their world-famous The Matrix, the (then) brothers Wachowski debuted with this delicious thriller, one full of … More Bound
BBB (out of 5) Taking place right before the events depicted in The Silence of the Lambs, this new chapter in the fascination with Hannibal Lecter has Anthony Hopkins return in the role of the famous cannibal that won him an Academy Award eleven years earlier. It begins with Lecter’s capture by brilliant FBI agent Will … More Red Dragon
BB.5 (out of 5) Well-intentioned but boring retread of Das Boot that features hunky Matthew McConaughey and a cast of good ole boys (who mysteriously all look the same, I could never tell who was being bumped off) who are sent on a mission to steal a decoding machine from a German U-boat, then end up … More U-571
BBB.5 (out of 5) After losing his entire tribe, including his family, to the evils of a powerful sorcerer (James Earl Jones), Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) grows up to be a powerful warrior in the hopes that he will one day avenge his people. Travelling across many lands, he journeys towards the castle of the sorcerer … More Conan The Barbarian (1982)
