Tremors: Limited Edition (4K UHD Review)
Format: Blu-ray Disc
Studio(s)Universal Pictures (Arrow Video)
Film/Program Grade: A+
Review
Tremors is thought of today as a franchise, but when the first film was released in 1990, one would not have believed that its meager box office take would spawn six sequels and a TV series. But after becoming a bigger hit on cable and home video, this comedy/horror/monster movie hybrid achieved a lucrative cult status. The idea of
Short Circuit screenwriters Brent Maddock and S.S. Wilson,
Tremors eventually got before the cameras with Ron Underwood (
City Slickers) at the helm and Kevin Bacon in the lead. The “Graboids” were engineered by movie special effects gurus Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr., who by this point had worked on
Updated / Friday, 8 Jan 2021
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Michael Apted
British director Michael Apted, who is known for films such as Gorillas in the Mist and Coal Miner s Daughter, as well as his long-running series of Up documentaries, has died at the age of 79.
The award-winning filmmaker also directed James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, fantasy sequel The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and 24 episodes of Coronation Street from June 1966 to July 1967.
Apted s agent confirmed the news of his passing but his cause of death has not yet been revealed.
Michael Apted with his wife Paige Simpson
Thomas Schlamme, the president of the Directors Guild of America, paid tribute to him in a statement.
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The British director Michael Apted has died at the age of 79.
The film-maker and documentarian was known for films such as Gorillas in the Mist and Coal Miner’s Daughter, as well as his long-running series of Up documentaries.
His death has been confirmed by his agency to the Hollywood Reporter. No further details are yet known.
Apted’s career started in the 1960s on the small screen, and in 1964, he assisted on the the show Seven Up! as part of the current affairs show World in Action. He helped the director Paul Almond interview 14 seven-year-old children, and continued to independently revisit them every seven years over the course of their lives. The most recent, 63 Up, was released in 2019 and the director referred to it as “the most important thing I have ever done”. The series as a whole won the Peabody award in 2012.
Dante s Peak is constructed about as skillfully as a disaster movie can be, and there were times when I found it working for me, sort of. But hasn t this genre pretty much been played out to the point of exhaustion? Once you know the premise (volcano, tornado, killer bees) you can guess the story line. Starting in this case with a volcano, we know there will be: Ominous portents of doom on a seemingly ordinary day, such as people being boiled alive in a hot springs, too many dead trees in the middle of summer and alarming seismic activity.
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