Well we’ve made it to the end of this year’s alphabet challenge, and also seemingly close to the end of humanity with Zombieland. Directed by Ruben Fleischer and written by the pair of Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the film is set after a zombie disease has wiped out the majority of mankind leaving only a few humans alive and
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One of the biggest Mel Brooks comedy films is the ‘Y’ letter of the Alphabet challenge with the 1974 Young Frankenstein. The film, directed by Brooks with Gene Wilder in the lead role was actually co-written by the pair in their 3rd collaboration (having already made the 1968 The Producers, and Blazing Saddles which also came out in 1974). The
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For X in the Alphabet Challenge, we turn to the Netflix produced 2016 XOXO, directed by Christopher Louie with a story that he created, with a screenplay by Dylan Meyer. The film centres on a music festival in the US, at which Ethan (Graham Phillips) a young DJ has been offered a chance to pay a set. As he makes
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For W – It’s the turn of the cult classic action thriller from 1979 ‘The Warriors’. The film, directed by Walter Hill (The Driver, Another 48 Hours, Red Heat) is based on the book of the same name by Sol Yurick, with a screenplay by David Shaber (Nighthawks, Flight of the Intruder). The film centres around a gang based in Coney
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The second film by Alfred Hitchcock in the Alphabet Challenge is for V and ‘Vertigo’ from 1958. One of the four films that James Stewart would make with Hitchock, and only two that were not overtly a more theatre setting, Vertigo is a dark pyschological thriller. Stewart plays John “Scottie” Ferguson a police detective in San Francisco, who has retired following
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Unbroken, the wartime drama story of the harrowing experience of Louis Zamperini at the hands of the Japanese during the second World War, is the film for U in the Alphabet challenge this year. The film is directed by Angelina Jolie with a screenplay partly written by the Coen Brothers. Zamperini, a talented runner pre war who had participated in
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Its ‘T’ o’clock in the Alphabet Challenge and the selection is the 1962 crime drama To Kill a Mockingbird based on the novel by Harper Lee and directed by Robert Mulligan. The classic film stars Gregory Peck in an oscar winning lead role as Atticus Finch, local lawyer in the deep southern in the 1930’s. The story focusses on the
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Barbara Stanwyck is back for her second appearance in this year’s Alphabet challenge in the dark film noir thriller from 1948 – Sorry, Wrong Number. The film begins with a crossed wire phone call between a bedridden Leona Stevenson (Stanwyck) who through this overhears two men seemingly planning a murder. With a start that is straight out of the gates
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For R in the Alphabet Challenge, we head over to Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window. The classic 1950’s crime thriller directed by the great man himself, stars James Stewart in the lead role of L.B. Jeffries. Jeffries is, 6 weeks into a broken left leg, wheelchair bound and stuck in his apartment in a very hot New York summer. His girlfriend
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For the ‘Q’ film of the Alphabet Challenge (always tricky this letter), we now look to Queen and Country, the 2014 british comedy drama. The film, both written and directed by John Boorman, is a sequel to the 1997 film Hope and Glory. Set in the 1950’s the film follows the two characters of Bill Rohan (played by Callum Turner)
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