by Vincent Leo · Published September 20, 2015 · Last modified July 13, 2018
Baltasar Kormakur (2 Guns, Contraband) directs this dramatized adventure story based on the well-chronicled true events that occurred to a couple of commercial mountain climbing expeditions seeking to safely take relative novices to the...
1980s / Adventure / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published April 14, 2005 · Last modified January 26, 2020
Star Trek V marks Shatner’s debut as a feature film director, with his prior directorial experience, like Leonard Nimoy, coming from stage productions and TV episodes. Due to the “favored-nations” contract that stipulated that...
1970s / Action / Adventure / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 7, 2001 · Last modified March 8, 2019
Based on the novel by Trevanian (aka Rod Whitaker, who co-wrote the screenplay), Clint plays art professor and successful mountain climber, Jonathan Hemlock, who comes out of retirement as an assassin for a secret government...
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