Showing posts with label John Williams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Williams. Show all posts

Friday, August 22, 2025

JAWS (1975) TURNS 50: THE GREATEST (FISH) STORY EVERY TOLD!!

JAWS (1975) d. Steven Spielberg (USA)
JAWS 2 (1978) d. Jeannot Szwarc (USA)
JAWS 3D (1983) d. Joe Alves (USA)
JAWS: THE REVENGE (1987) d. Joseph Sargent (USA)




From its harrowing opening sequence to the breathtaking climax, Steven Spielberg’s hugely successful masterpiece of suspense and thrills, JAWS (1975), scared audiences out of the water and into theaters in record-breaking numbers. On the surface, the plot is simplicity itself: The locals of the northeastern island town of Amity start turning up as fish food when an enormous great white shark materializes, leaving fear and body parts in its wake.

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

DRACULA (1979) Blu-ray Review



Dracula (1979) d. John Badham (USA) (109 min)

Fresh from his Broadway triumph in the titular role, a young and handsome Frank Langella smirks and smolders his way into the hearts of heroines Mina Van Helsing (Jan Francis) and Lucy Seward (Kate Nelligan), leaving the former bitten and drained, the latter smitten and stained with his tainted blood. Donald Pleasance provides a busy and eccentric turn as Dr. Seward, head of the local loony bin, while Laurence Olivier lends estimable gravitas as an aging but feisty Van Helsing, wrestling with undead demons and an unplaceable European accent (Dutch? Swiss? German?) with equal fervor.