Thanks to Tom Cruise s increasingly death-defying stunts, as well as Henry Cavill famously reloading his fists as if they were guns, Fallout is the most thrilling entry in the Mission: Impossible series to date and a high point for Hollywood action cinema in general.
For Your Eyes Only - ITV 4 - 9pm
Speaking of cinemas being closed, film fans around the world are still waiting with bated breath for No Time to Die.
As you wait, you can check out this earlier Bond flick - the 12th in the series and the fifth to star Roger Moore as 007.
National Lampoon s Vacation - Turner Classic Movies - 9pm
This Is What Peter Weller Has Been Up To Since RoboCop
This Is What Peter Weller Has Been Up To Since RoboCop Orion Pictures
By Patrick Phillips/May 4, 2021 11:34 pm EDT
Somewhere in the middle of the silly sex comedies, socially-conscious dramas, and bombastic one man against the world spectacles of the 1980s, Hollywood brought us Paul Verhoeven s RoboCop, a grueling dystopian actioner about a slaughtered Detroit police officer (Peter Weller) resurrected in the form of the titular half-man, half-machine super-cop. Depicted with reckless, gory abandon and a flair for gritty hyper-reality, RoboCop was also one of the few distinctly over-the-top 80s action flicks that didn t shy away from the gun-loving, drug-addled, capitalistic divisions fueling inner-city turmoil across the country. That it did so while becoming a bona fide box office hit seemed to come as a surprise to everyone involved.
Filmmaker Monte Hellman, 'the best-kept secret in Hollywood,' dies at 91 | Arts & Entertainment gazettextra.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazettextra.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Monte Hellman, the director know for spare, probing genre movies such as “The Shooting,” “Two-Lane Blacktop” and “Road To Nowhere,” has died at age 91.
Hellman died Tuesday at Eisenhower Medical Center in Palm Desert, following a fall in his home, his daughter Melissa Hellman said.
Writing about Hellman in 1970, The Times’ Kevin Thomas referred to the filmmaker as “just about the best-kept secret in Hollywood.”
“When you see how great Monte’s films are, you’re amazed that he didn’t get to make three or four times as many, but then when you see how they did at the box office, it’s a miracle that he got to make the films he did,” said Dennis Bartok, former head of programming at the American Cinematheque and a longtime friend and collaborator with Hellman. “And I think part of it was that Monte never had that one defining hit that would carry him through the rest of his career. That film was supposed to be ‘Two-Lane Blacktop.’ I think it wa
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