Francis Megahy, a writer, director and documentarian whose credits included the Pierce Brosnan film Taffin and such British series as Minder and the Ian McShane-starring Lovejoy, has died. He was 85.
Megahy died Friday in his Los Angeles home after a long battle with cancer, his cousin, Adrian Cohen, told The Hollywood Reporter.
A raconteur and bon vivant, Megahy also was behind The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson (1996), a mockumentary about a Hollywood con man that starred Brosnan, James Coburn and Megahy's close friend Dudley Moore. It opened the inaugural Slamdance Film Festival, and after a screening in London, a ...
Megahy died Friday in his Los Angeles home after a long battle with cancer, his cousin, Adrian Cohen, told The Hollywood Reporter.
A raconteur and bon vivant, Megahy also was behind The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson (1996), a mockumentary about a Hollywood con man that starred Brosnan, James Coburn and Megahy's close friend Dudley Moore. It opened the inaugural Slamdance Film Festival, and after a screening in London, a ...
Francis Megahy, a writer, director and documentarian whose credits included the Pierce Brosnan film Taffin and such British series as Minder and the Ian McShane-starring Lovejoy, has died. He was 85.
Megahy died Friday in his Los Angeles home after a long battle with cancer, his cousin, Adrian Cohen, told The Hollywood Reporter.
A raconteur and bon vivant, Megahy also was behind The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson (1996), a mockumentary about a Hollywood con man that starred Brosnan, James Coburn and Megahy's close friend Dudley Moore. It opened the inaugural Slamdance Film Festival, and after a screening in London, a ...
Megahy died Friday in his Los Angeles home after a long battle with cancer, his cousin, Adrian Cohen, told The Hollywood Reporter.
A raconteur and bon vivant, Megahy also was behind The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson (1996), a mockumentary about a Hollywood con man that starred Brosnan, James Coburn and Megahy's close friend Dudley Moore. It opened the inaugural Slamdance Film Festival, and after a screening in London, a ...
The festival formerly known as Silverdocs has been renamed AFI Docs, moving its center from Silver Spring MD to the nation's capital, and holding its eleventh edition this week. The latest edition of Indiewire's curation of Hulu's Documentaries page celebrates this shift with a selection of politically-focused films giving an insider look at Washington DC. Watch them now for free! A number of the selections look at voting and the democratic process. Jeff Reichert's "Gerrymandering" explores the process of redistricting, where politicians can literally redraw electoral districts to give themselves, or their party, an advantage at the polls.Also looking at the darker side of the political process, Francis Megahy's "The Best Government Money Can Buy?" offers a non-partisan look at the unprecedented influence of lobbyists on Capitol Hill, and how their interests shape the legislation that affects us all.Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck's "The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's.
- 6/20/2013
- by Basil Tsiokos
- Indiewire
Fans of Don “The Dragon” Wilson understand the fact that the majority of the man’s work is, shall we say, somewhat lacking, to say the least. There are very few titles in Wilson’s storied filmography that are genuinely entertaining. “Out for Blood” — a title that probably should have gone to Steven Seagal — and “Moving Target” are, for me, the cream of his cinematic crop, though I think it can be argued that director Francis Megahy’s 1994 endeavor “Red Sun Rising” is his best. Granted, it’s still a low-budget martial arts flick with all of the trappings, but it showcases a strong performance from Wilson and a plethora of enjoyable fight sequences. The film tells the story of a Japanese cop who travels to the United States to find the bastard responsible for murdering his partner. Along the way, he gets into the middle of a gang war...
- 4/30/2012
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
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