Gene Hackman

“I had a lot riding on that match, you know. Financially and personally.” It's been 20 years since Wes Anderson introduced the world to a family in desperate need of a group hug. Anderson’s filmography normally reads like a…

The mid-budget crime thriller barely exists anymore. Where once it was the tentpole of mainstream adult cinema, now it is relegated to the odd indie movie rarely seen outside of festivals, the occasional Steven Soderbergh picture or, most…

Watch enough disaster films and it becomes easy enough to spot the rules. The story will sketch the cast of disparate characters before anything dramatic happens. The disaster must be foreshadowed. The disaster can be either natural,…

“Destroy Superman, now!” Thus spoke Nuclearman, from the lips of model Mark Pillow but the voice of Gene Hackman (rather awkwardly, Pillow had to speak his lines on-set in time with a cassette tape of Hackman’s pre-recorded dialogue).…