Another cinematic revisitation- I rewatched 48 Hrs for the first time since seeing it on VHS in the mid-80's. Walter Hill really is a terrific director and the comic book, technicolor touches that he applied to The Warriors he also adapts here and it works magnificently. In fact, I played 'Spot the Warrior' throughout the …
I saw this film in the best way possible back in the 80's- on late night TV, lights dimmed with it being the last thing I watched before hitting the hay. Ryan O'Neal plays The Driver (no name is given for his character and this is the case for all of the lead characters), a …
A team of Louisiana Army National Guards venture into a local bayou. After getting lost they take three small boats belonging to local Cajuns. When they fire blank bullets at the men the Cajuns return this gesture with real bullets, killing one of the soldiers. From here on in things get worse and worse for …
It's amazing what you find when you go trawling through the microfiche archives for your local newspaper. When browsing through the back issues of The Yorkshire Evening Post for 1979, I noticed that The Warriors, Walter Hill's gritty, comic book-style New York action flick, was actually shown at a 'members-only' cinema called The Tatler here …
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