The Wrong Man
Way, way back when I was in film school my favorite professor gave me a bunch of videocassettes of movies that were, at the time, quite hard to come by…. Read more »
Way, way back when I was in film school my favorite professor gave me a bunch of videocassettes of movies that were, at the time, quite hard to come by…. Read more »
Promised A Miracle (1988) is a made for television adaptation of Larry Parker’s cautionary memoir We Let Our Son Die. The film was directed by veteran television provocateur Stephen Gyllenhaal… Read more »
Jean-Claude Van Damme movie isn’t about cinematographic innovation and nobody has ever watched his movies with that in mind. A Van Damme movie is about corny one-liners, escapism and most… Read more »
It’s not all that surprising that in the mid-eighties brothers Lawrence and Mark Kasdan would write a western about family values. Silverado (1985) is one of the better known westerns… Read more »
A highly regarded filmmaker doesn’t necessarily make for a good sketch comedian. This is the lesson of John Landis’ omnibus film Amazon Women On The Moon (1987). The film is… Read more »
The Whole Nine Yards (2000) is essentially a retread of the crime film genre from a comedic angle, exploring similar ideas and themes as Married To The Mob (1988), Mickey… Read more »
I think the fact that Mike Hodges is British is essential to Black Rainbow (1989). When one looks at a foreign culture one sees little about it that is common… Read more »
Bruce Springsteen’s songs from his albums Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ through Born To Run tell the stories of teenagers, New Jersey youth, caught between the sixties and seventies. Springsteen… Read more »
8 Million Ways To Die (1986) could have been one of Hal Ashby’s greatest films, but he was fired before post-production could begin. Ashby’s great talent was to shoot his… Read more »
Is the new bartender Monte a secret agent? Is he a human cannonball? Is he a fugitive from England? These are the questions the waitresses ask themselves at the opening… Read more »