Quentin Tarantino’s third film Jackie Brown is the film we go to for ‘J’ in this year’s Alphabet challenge. The film, based on Elmore Leonard’s book Rum Punch came out in 1997 and was the first film that the director made that was not an original creation of his own work. The film centres on Jackie Brown (played by Pam Greer),
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For the ‘I’ film, we turn to the crime thriller with strong civli rights themes, the 1967 In the Heat of the Night directed by Normal Jewison and is based on the novel of the sane name by John Ball. The film is set in the town of Sparta in Mississippi, USA, following the murder of prominent local businessman Phillip
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In his final film performance, we now turn to Steve McQueen’s 1980 The Hunter’ for the ‘H’ film of the second run of the Alphabet challenge. Out of respect for one of the coolest actors that ever graced cinema, lets keep this brief. Steve McQueen plays bounty hunter Ralph ‘Papa’ Thorson. Thorson, who makes his living tracking down absconded criminals,
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For ‘G’ in the Alphabet challenge, we head off to the Boston based crime thriller Gone Baby Gone, directed by Ben Affleck and starring his younger brother Casey. The film, based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane (Shutter Island, The Drop, Mystic River), is a crime thriller with strong film noir feel to it following the
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It’s time for ‘F’ in the Alphabet Challenge and the selector has gone for the 1968 musical biopic Funny Girl. The film tells the true tale of Fanny Brice, played by Barbara Streisand in a role that she had previously played on the stage, in a film directed by William Wyler (most famously the director of Ben Hur and Roman Holiday).
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Letter ‘E’ of the Alphabet Challenge – it’s the 1979 drama ‘Escape from Alcatraz’. Based on the true story of the 1962 actual escape from the island prison in San Francisco bay, the story follows a number of inmates (mainly Frank Morris – played by Clint Eastwood) firstly showing daily life in the prison evolving into their endeavours as they
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For letter ‘D’ of the second Alphabet challenge, we’re off to the 1964 classic political satire comedy – Dr Strangelove (Or how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb). The classic film was directed and written by Stanley Kubrick – still in the early years of his career although following up a run of films that has included
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Letter ‘C’ in the Alphabet Challenge takes us to the 2013 military mess Company of Heroes. This shameful piece of cinema is directed by Don Michael Paul (who brought the world other such films as Tremors 5 and Kindergarten Cop 2). The film includes performances by Tom Sizemore, Neal McDonough and Vinnie Jones. All of whom should have kept a
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To Panama we head for the 2nd film of this year’s Alphabet Challenge and to the 2003 film Basic. Directed by John McTiernan, the film is a military mystery thriller starring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson, and was written by James Vanderbilt. Travolta plays DEA Agent Tom Hardy (yep really!) who is called upon one evening by a former
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We’re off with the 2nd Alphabet challenge and we begin with the Woody Allen classic romantic comedy from 1977 – ‘Annie Hall’. Directed and written by Allen (co-written by Marshall Brickman) the film centres on his character of Alvy Singer – a stand up coming that has begun to make a name for himself with some TV performances in New
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