Given our current political predicament, no line in cinema feels more relevant than when Bob Hauk, the police commissioner in Escape from New York, says to Snake Plissken, “The president’s gone missing.” To which Plissken coolly responds, “President of what?” ...
By 1991, Kentucky born director Gus Van Sant was in transition of the freewheeling world of independent film in to something much more established in the world of commercial movie making. By 1991, Kentucky born director Gus Van Sant was in transition of the freewheeling world of independent film in to something much more established in the world...
The big secret about Wes Anderson’s endearing “Moonrise Kingdom” is that it’s ultimately a fable about loneliness and coming to terms with that. The big secret about Wes Anderson’s endearing “Moonrise Kingdom” is that it’s ultimately a fable about loneliness and coming to terms with that. Nobody is connecting as much as interacting in their...
For months, the trailers for Scott Cooper’s latest movie Black Mass has been featured prominently during commercial breaks. They do a pretty excellent job of depicting the internsity of the film and exactly how a sinister gangster like Whitey could have possibly reigned for so long. His crew, known as The Winter Hill Gang, wreaked havoc all over...
Dressed To Kill 1980 Brian De Palma Spine #770 Available on Blu-Ray & DVD courtesy of The Criterion Collection Dressed To Kill 1980 Brian De Palma Spine #770 Available on Blu-Ray & DVD courtesy of The Criterion Collection As a director in 1980, Brian De Palma (Carrie, Scarface) had earned the reputation of not only being a more than capable...
Based on a 1938 Gerald Kersh novel of the same name, Night and the City certainly lives up to its archetypical sounding noir title, but is quite atypical in its pessimistic identity and unusual plotti Based on a 1938 Gerald Kersh novel of the same name, Night and the City certainly lives up to its archetypical sounding noir title, but is quite...
The Killers 1946, 1964 Robert Siodmak, Donald Segal Spine #176 Available on DVD and Blu-Ray The Killers 1946, 1964 Robert Siodmak, Donald Segal Spine #176 Available on DVD and Blu-Ray Both versions of The Killers are the adaptation of Earnest Hemingway’s 1927 short story of the same name which document two hitmen who hold up in a diner and the...
Criterion has bestowed a convenient gathering for those interested in Wallace Shawn and André Gregory’s 37 years in the making, three-film evolution, which includes My Dinner With André, Criterion has bestowed a convenient gathering for those interested in Wallace Shawn and André Gregory’s 37 years in the making, three-film evolution, which...
In Mark Rydell’s The Rose, break-out star Bette Midler champions herself with a performance mirroring that of the late, great Janis Joplin or really any other rocker from that era who was jus In Mark Rydell’s The Rose, break-out star Bette Midler champions herself with a performance mirroring that of the late, great Janis Joplin or really any...
The military thriller Good Kill reunites New Zealand director/writer Andrew Niccol with recent Best Actor Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, almost t The military thriller Good Kill reunites New Zealand director/writer Andrew Niccol with recent Best Actor Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, almost twenty years after their first collaboration on...
