Hey You Guys! It felt like there was more chance of finding One-Eyed Willy’s treasure than the world getting a sequel to Richard Donner’s 1985 classic The Goonies, but you can fire up some Cyndi Lauper and start getting excited because a Steven Spielberg produced follow-up is moving forward at Warner Bros. According to The […]
Movie Review – Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024)
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, 2024. Directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui. Featuring Christopher Reeve, Amanda Reeve, Matthew Reeve, Will Reeve. Gae Sexton, Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Whoopi Goldberg, John Kerry, Brooke Ellison, Steven Kirshblum, Richard Donner, Susan Sarandon, Robin Williams, Bill Clinton, Johnny Carson, Jane Seymour, Barack Obama, and Alexandra Reeve Givens. SYNOPSIS: […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Scrooged (1988)
Scrooged, 1988. Directed by Richard Donner. Starring Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane, Robert Mitchum, Michael J. Pollard, and Alfre Woodard. SYNOPSIS: If Scrooged is on your must-watch holiday movie list, you’ll want this new 4K Ultra HD edition from Paramount, which features a remastered print of the film along with […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Superman: The 5-Movie Collection
Superman: The 5-Movie Collection Directed by Richard Donner, Richard Lester, and Sidney J. Furie. Starring Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Glenn Ford, Trevor Howard, Margot Kidder, Valerie Perrine, Maria Schell, Terence Stamp, Phyllis Thaxter, Susannah York, Sarah Douglas, Jack O’Halloran, Clifton James, E.G. Marshall, Marc McClure, Richard Pryor, Annette O’Toole, […]
Blu-ray Review – Cursed Films
Cursed Films, 2020. Directed by Jay Cheel. Featuring Phil Nobile Jr., Ryan Turek, Mace Neufeld, Wade Davis, Kane Hodder, Linda Blair, Michael Berryman, Eileen Dietz, Richard Donner, and Lloyd Kaufman. SYNOPSIS: Documentary series focusing on five of the most famously troubled horror movie productions. You could argue that every movie has its production troubles, from […]
DC confirms Superman ’78 and Batman ’89 exist in same universe
Did you know Tim Burton’s Batman and Richard Donner’s Superman took place on the same DC Earth? Well, now we have confirmation from DC Comics themselves. In Dark Crisis: Big Bang #1 by DC Comics, there was a brief blurb that put Michael Keaton’s Batman and Christopher Reeve’s Superman on Earth-789, meaning these two icons exist […]
Mel Gibson hopes to shoot Lethal Weapon 5 in early 2023
Although last year’s passing of legendary filmmaker Richard Donner seemed to put an end to any hopes of a Lethal Finale, Mel Gibson announced back in November that he’d be stepping in for his friend and colleague as director on the long-planned Lethal Weapon 5. Things may have fallen quiet since then, but Gibson has […]
Mel Gibson announces that he will direct Lethal Weapon 5
Of the many terrible things to happen over the last couple of years, losing Legendary American filmmaker Richard Donner was a particularly sad blow for film fans around the world, with The Goonies and Superman director announcing earlier in 2021 that he still intended to direct the long-gestating fourth-sequel to his Lethal Weapon franchise. Well, […]
Richard Donner’s massive contribution to my love of cinema
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the late Richard Donner’s career and pays tribute to a director who made millions fall in love with cinema… You’ll believe a man can fly! It was the promise which preceded the release of Superman, the first major movie adaptation of a comic book character. This was a key moment. […]
R.I.P. Richard Donner (1930 – 2021)
Legendary American filmmaker Richard Donner has passed away at the age of 91, his wife, producer Lauren Shuler Donner, has announced today. Born in the Bronx in 1930, Donner began his career directing commercials before switching to television in the late 1950s, working on TV dramas such as Wanted: Dead or Alive, The Fugitive, The […]
