Over the years Sir Maurice Micklewhite has been is some right old guff. For every moment of quiet gravitas as Alfred The Butler there’s a ‘Shadow Run’ waiting to quietly derail things.
Even back in the good old days you couldn’t trust him not to slip into a dress and beggar belief fighting killer Bees – frankly, the man’s long been a danger to his own career, so it’s a tribute to his charisma that he remains such an enduring screen icon – and in Daniel Barber’s Sarth Lahndahn violence-fest, we’re reminded exactly why.
Tremors is a movie that your mind hides from you. You’ll forget about it for years at a time, but on a rainy sunday it’ll be on ITV2 and you’ll find yourself watching the whole thing, looking it up on IMDB and considering buying the box set of all the movies. Yes – there are four. A series and a fifth movie are planned.
Kevin Bacon is pretty cool and strangely likable (for Kevin Bacon) and Fred Ward provides a gruff comic foil, but the best thing about Tremors (apart from the brilliantly named Graboids) is one Burt Gummer, played by the higly underrated Michael Gross.
