Tag: Steven Berkoff

4K UHD Review: Underworld (1985)

The first of what was originally planned as a series of horror films made with Clive Barker, who is credited with the story and (with James Caplin) the screenplay. Underworld (AKA Transmutations) is best looked at as a 1980’s oddity…

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Blu-ray Review: Barry Lyndon (Criterion Collection)

[amazon_link asins=’B073XYGB8T’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’e718ad93-7716-11e8-8c3d-95487761a9e3′]Long an admirer of Stanley Kubrick, I count 2001: A Space Odyssey and Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb among my favorite films of all time. However, Barry…

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Blu-ray Review: Beverly Hills Cop

Paramount Pictures | 1984 | 105 mins. | R Beverly Hills Cop owes its success to star Eddie Murphy. Murphy’s one-of-a kind, fast-talking personality turned a rather routine, shallow cop comedy into something special. Murphy’s presence is the primary reason…

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Blu-ray Review: The Tourist

Sony Pictures | 2010 | 103 mins. | PG-13 Given the screenplay for The Tourist, if this were the 1950’s, Alfred Hitchcock would have directed and Cary Grant and Grace Kelly would have starred. Then Hitch would have gone on…

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