The Magnificent Seven Blu-ray review
Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 epic The Seven Samurai is westernized in John Sturges’ thrilling adventure The Magnificent Seven. Academy Award Winner Yul Brynner plays Chris, a mercenary hired to protect a Mexican farming village from its annual invasion by bandit Calvera (Eli Wallach). The Magnificent Seven also featured landmark performances from Steve McQueen, Charles ….
Lalo Schifrin, Robert Vaughn, Bullitt screening and more to highlight this week’s tribute to Cult Cinema Icon Steve McQueen
Yesterday, November 7th, marked 30 years since Steve McQueen’s untimely passing at age 50. In tribute to the Cult Cinema Icon, Jules Verne Festival creators Jean-Christophe Jeauffre and Frederic Dieudonne have announced The Official 30th Anniversary Tribute Events to Steve McQueen. The event kicked-off yesterday at 11AM on Hollywood Blvd., four days before the Official ….
Halloween II director Rob Zombie remaking The Blob next
Rob Zombie – fresh off of his reinvention of the Halloween series – will write, direct and produce a remake of the 1958 horror classic The Blob, the film that launched the career of Steve McQueen, according to Variety. Production is scheduled to start next spring according to the report, from a script that Zombie ….
Norman Jewison, Robert Vaughn, Candice Bergen, Peter Yates and more to appear at Steve McQueen classic film screenings at Lincoln Center
For one week only, now through May 26th, twelve of Steve McQueen’s most thrilling crime thrillers and adventure yarns, will be screening at
The Kite Runner Blu-ray review
Marc Forster’s visceral adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s bestseller The Kite Runner, succeeds at tracing massive political and social changes in the country of Afghanistan, while remaining tightly focused on a group of people whose lives are forever altered by the tumultuous changes. The film follows the life of Amir, a spoiled young Afghani from a ….
New trailer for Steve McQueen-directed Hunger
Steve McQueen directs Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Helena Bereen, Larry Cowan, Liam Cunningham, Dennis McCambridge, Liam McMahon, Laine Megaw, Brian Milligan, Rory Mullen and Lalor Roddy, in the U.K. drama Hunger. Hunger revolves around the last six weeks of the life of Irish Republican activist Bobby Sands, who held a prison hunger strike, in an ….
Steve McQueen biopic on the way
Producers Michael Cerenzie and Christine Peters are developing a Steve McQueen biopic, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The team have acquired rights to the Marshall Terrill’s biography Steve McQueen: Portrait of an American Rebel. The new film will primarily focus on McQueen’s Hollywood career, which began in 1956 when the Indiana native got his break ….