Heartbreakers
Since its initial theatrical release Heartbreakers (2001) has drifted into relative obscurity. Heartbreakers, despite its lack luster promotional art, is an excellent comedy that was way ahead of its time…. Read more »
Tag: Gene Hackman
The Replacements
Hoosiers (1986), with its sentimentality and saccharine characterizations, wrote the book on the contemporary sports drama. Every subsequent “feel-good” sports flick, from Remember The Titans (2000) to Friday Night Lights… Read more »
Scarecrow
Director Jerry Schatzberg’s Scarecrow (1973) is a road movie set during the twilight of America’s Vietnam War. The film, written by Garry Michael White, is a portrait of male friendship…. Read more »
Prime Cut
Prime Cut (1972) opens in Kansas with a montage following the progress that a cow makes from the barn to the burger packing machine. Then, we following the “excess” meat… Read more »
Lilith
Robert Rossen is best known for having written and directed All The King’s Men, Alexander The Great and The Hustler. But little is written of his final feature, the intimate… Read more »
Eureka
Nicolas Roeg’s death at age 90 can’t really be called a surprise, but the loss is still great. Personally, Roeg was one of my first “filmmaker heroes”. The first DVD… Read more »
