Tag: John Boorman

The Tailor Of Panama (2001) – Review

The responsibility of playing James Bond comes with far more dangers and pitfalls than just having to talk your way out of having your penis

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Deliverance (1972) – Review

For such a seemingly “normal” director as John Boorman, he didn’t half go all in when it came to cramming cinema full of batshit, crazy.

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Hell In The Pacific (1968) – Review

When it comes to celebrated filmmaker John Boorman tackling the Second World War, most people are drawn to Hope & Glory, his autobiographical take on

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Point Blank (1967) – Review

The American crime movie has always been cool as it usually features really bad people doing really bad things in a way that’s perversely endearing;

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Zardoz (1974) – Review

Picture the scene… A giant stone head floats above a barren landscape as it bellows the phrase “The gun is good! The penis is evil!”

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Excalibur (1981) – Review

I’ve never met John Boorman in the flesh, but I’m willing to bet cash money that restraint wasn’t high on his list of priorities whenever

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Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) – Review

Sequelizing William Friedkin’s The Exorcist was never going to be an easy job as, for all intents and purposes, it’s as perfect a horror film

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