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This period crime drama has often been described as "Goodfellas with Motorcyle's" as it chronicles the saga of a Midwestern motorcycle club or "gang" in 1967 adapted from a non-fiction photo-book of the same name. The story focuses on Kathy (Jodie Comer) who is new to this world and has fallen in love with one of the drivers, Benny (Austin Butler) the charismatic, generally quiet biker whom she falls in love with, and Johnny (Tom Hardy) the intimidating leader of this recently formed gang - each of them are loosely based on real people as are several others in this stacked cast including Michael Shannon, Boyd Holbrook, and Norman Reedus. As directed by acclaimed filmmaker Jeff Nichols (Mud, Take Shelter, Midnight Special), we follow their adventures on the road and off....
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Directed by the late, great Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men, Serpico, Network) and in honor of his 100th Birthday (!), this courtroom drama stars the legendary Paul Newman as a semi-alcoholic Boston attorney taking on what might be his most challenging case yet! The family of a pregnant woman - recently sent into a permanent coma in the care of a Catholic-run hospital possibly resulting from the negligence of staff on site caring for her - is now suing said hospital for damages and what results is the textbook definition of a David Vs. Goliath case with Frank on one side and the local Catholic Arch-diocese on the other. Gratefully in Frank's corner is a top legal whiz played by Jack Warden....though leading the defendants is an extremely savvy lawyer played by the late, great James Mason. :o There are legends aplenty in front of and behind the camera of this highly acclaimed legal thriller which was nominated for five Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor! The stacked cast also includes Charlotte Rampling, Lindsey Crouse, Milo O'Shea, and Joe Seneca.
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In honor of Pride Month and celebrating this film's upcoming 30th Anniversary, it's time to embark on the exciting adventures of three drag queens travelling across the Australian Outback on a bus which actually shares its title with this movie. :) This Oscar-winning cult hit was directed by Stephen Elliott and stars Terrance Stamp, Guy Pearce, and Hugo Weaving....yes THAT Hugo Weaving just about five years before his big break as Agent Smith in The Matrix! Everyone's glammed up and wearing fantastically elaborate costumes as they give musical performances (mostly lip syncing the hits) to various audiences wherever they stop. And the eventual goal of this mission? Apparently so one of them can reunite with a key member of his family....it's all very heartwarming, so let's hit the road!
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In honor of the Juneteenth holiday and just in time for the 35th Anniversary of its U.S. release, this is very likely THE signature filmmaking achievement from one of our most important filmmakers. It was written by, directed by , and also happens to start Oscar-winner Spike Lee in a relatively straightforward fictional tale (though loosely based on some true events) of THE hottest day of the summer in one particular neighborhood of New York.....Bedford Stuyvesant in Brooklyn. Spike stars as Mookie who works for Sal played by Danny Aiello - Sal owns and operates the only pizzaria in this particular neighborhood, where his two sons Vito (Ricard Edson) and Pino (John Turturro) also happen to work. One day, a brassy local nicknamed Buggin' Out (Giancarlo Esposito) comes walking into Sal's Pizzaria and starts asking some provocative questions....things get heated between him and Sal and that's JUST the beginning. Enter Radio Raheem played by Bill Nunn along who ALSO has some issues to get off of his chest....and he's not alone. As the day progresses and the heat persists, things get increasingly more tense.....
And what results is a powerful film with a powerful ending which made quite the impact back in the Summer of '89....its impact STILL being felt and discussed today.
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Just in time for Father's Day, here is a fondly remembered action comedy starring two legends which was first released 45 years ago this month. Those two legends are Peter Falk (TV's Columbo) and Alan Arkin (Oscar-winner for Little Miss Sunshine) who play two VERY different fathers whose respective son and daughter are about to get married. Falk plays Vince who's an agent for the CIA while Arkin plays Sheldon who is a dentist....through a series of unfortunate events, Vince gets Sheldon embroiled in his ongoing effort to take down a global conspiracy to crash the U.S. dollar and hilarity ensues! (It really does.) Directed by Arthur Hiller (Love Story, Silver Streak) and written by Andrew Bergman (Fletch, Blazing Saddles), it's time to go SERPENTINE!!!
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Adapted from the French smash hit of stage screen "La Cage Aux Folles," this raucous farce about two VERY different families about to join via marriage was directed by the late, great Mike Nichols who directed modern classics of various genres including The Graduate, Catch-22, Working Girl, Silkwood, and Carnal Knowledge. It was a smash hit back in the spring of 1996 and was also one of the first Hollywood blockbusters to be lead by gay characters. What helped was that those two leads happened to be the legendary Oscar-winning comedic superstar Robin Williams and the Tony-winning comedic mastermind Nathan Lane who play Armand and Albert who own a successful club in Miami Beach named....you guessed it...The Birdcage. They just found out that their son Val (Dan Futterman) who just got home from college is about get married....to Barbara (Calista Flockhart) who happens to be the daughter of right-wing U.S. Senator Keeley (Oscar-winner Gene Hackman) and his equally right-wing wife played by Oscar-winner Dianne Wiest. And GUESS who's coming to dinner in Miami Beach? :)
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Acclaimed Five Time Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Boyhood, Before Sunrise) has returned with his latest opus which received a TON of strong buzz on the festival circuit last year....and was then purchased by Netflix and held for a mostly streaming release this year. :/ It's the SEMI-true story of a fake cop named Gary Johnson (Glenn Powell) who worked with the local police to help draw in and apprehend citizens planning on committing murder....by pretending to be a "hit man." Through taking on various disguises and personas, Gary becomes really good at his job until.....one day a potential client comes calling whom he falls in love with. She's Madison (Adria Arjona) and after they meet over the potential murder of her husband.....instead of committing murder, they begin a torrid affair. And of course, further complications ensue....does this live up to the hype of potentially being one of the best films of 2024? Let's find out.....
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Thirty years ago, this high-concept action thriller loosely described as "Die Hard on a Bus" surprisingly took the world by storm. It was directed by Jan De Bont (Twister) and stars Keanu Reeves with an uncharacteristically short haircut (for him) as Jack, a young up-and-coming LAPD cop learning the ropes from his more veteran partner Harry played by Jeff Daniels. Together they get roped into a high-rise hostage situation set on an elevator rigged with explosives and after they rescue said hostages, thing just crazier from there! The perpetrator (Dennis Hopper) of this bombing which went awry then ropes them into his next plot....this time with just as many hostages but for even more money.
And THIS time, he has a rigged a bus to explode.....while it traverses the crowded streets of LA....and it will only explode IF the bus drives BELOW 50 MP. :o Enter Annie (Sandra Bullock) who happens to be on this bus.....and then ends up driving the bus as well....Jack gets on the bus to help her and together, they keep finding inventive ways to keep the bus moving around traffic-filled Los Angeles. And chaos ensues....and a love story possibly? What results is one of the more beloved action films of the '90's and only one question remains:
WHAT DO YOU DO? WHAT DO YOU DO?
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Welcome to the Living for the Max series. Over the past 45 years, there has been no other film franchise QUITE as inventive nor as consistently exciting as The Mad Max Saga….four films mostly chronicling the post-apocalyptic adventures of lone wolf Max Roxatansky played three times by Mel Gibson and most recently by Tom Hardy. As each film has been directed by Australian cinematic genius George Miller, they have each reflected his unique vision while also being HUGELY influential on pop culture, more specifically the action genre. So needless to say, new ones don’t come around very often and when they do….it MORE than qualifies as a cinematic EVENT. Therefore over the next several months, I will be revisiting EACH entry of this beloved franchise every month leading up to the U.S. release of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga on May 24!
Well the time has come, the latest installment of this beloved franchise has finally arrived nine years after the previous one. Once again directed by George Miller but this time starring Anya Taylor-Joy (playing a younger version of the title role, taking over from Charlize Theron in the last one) and Chris Hemsworth as a new villain, the demented....Dementus. ;) This time around, we are being told the origin story of Furiosa kicking off with her earlier years as a young girl (Alayla Brown) living in the "Green Place" who is then kidnapped by some marauders who report to Dementus - she also sadly loses her brave mother (Charlee Fraser) in the process as well. And what results is an epic revenge tale set once again in the post-apocalyptic Wasteland of Australia. where we also revisit settings and characters from previous entries. Let's find out if one of the most highly anticipated franchise films of recent years lives up to the hype....
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"The Magic Is Back!"
That was the official tagline in the marketing for this highly anticipated sequel to '87's Lethal Weapon when it was first being released just under thirty-five years ago. We were rejoining the story of two very different Los Angeles cops who became friends at the end of the previous film....wild-haired, suicidal widower Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and slowly retiring family man Roger Murtagh (Danny Glover). At a time when the buddy cop action film was a fairly common staple in movie theaters, the first one had received almost universal praise for the performances of these two actors and their undeniable chemistry. So this time around, they're true buddies but they also have new enemies to deal with.....a cabal of South African diplomats who are also running a brutal drug trade on the West Coast, lead by Arjen (Joss Ackland) and Pieter (Derrick O'Connor). And beyond that, they have a new government witness to babysit....Leo Goetz played by Oscar-winner Joe Pesci....could these two new threads intertwine? Let's find out if the magic DID in fact return in this highly successful action sequel once again directed by the late, great Richard Donner.
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COPPOLA WEEK continues! Fifty years ago sandwiched between his two multiple Oscar-winning masterpieces of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Francis Ford Coppola finally had studio support to write and direct this passion project which he had been working on since the mid '60's. The story focuses on Harry - a surveillance expert played by Oscar-winner Gene Hackman - who has recorded a mysterious tape of a couple he was assigned to "bug" and hears something concerning on it which sets the plot in motion. The story delves deeply into Harry's mindset as he eventually finds himself in danger....but from whom? This now iconic paranoia thriller was nominated for three Oscars including Best Picture and features a stacked cast surrounding Hackman including Cindy Williams, John Cazale, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forest, Teri Garr, and a pretty young Harrison Ford.
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In time for its upcoming 45th Anniversary, Memorial Day AND the recent resurgence of its Oscar-winning director screening his long-developed passion project (Megalopolis....hopefully coming out later this year), what better time to revisit a film which itself was a long-gestating passion project for Francis Ford Coppola? All of the crazy stories behind its troubled projection have seemingly been remembered as much as the film itself but make no mistake, this Vietnam/Cambodia-set war drama still packs a punch with several memorable sequences including.....one All-Timer scored to Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries?" :o Martin Sheen leads a positively stacked cast including Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Laurence Fishburne, Harrison Ford, and a highly memorable turn from Marlon Brando. Let's kick off our Fourth Season (!) with a journey up the Nung River.....
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It's time to return of the most beloved and longest running franchises in cinema, the ongoing chronicles of an alternative timeline in Earth's history when humanity destroyed itself and the apes took over our planet, originally starting with the 1968 classic Planet of the Apes starring Charlton Heston. Coming out seven years after the last entry (War of the Planet of the Apes) which closed out a highly popular and acclaimed trilogy films focusing on the primate protagonist known as Caesar, this story kicks off several generations after that character's passing. The planet is now in fact ruled by apes but several factions have formed including a mild-mannered tribe which raises eagles - this tribe includes our new protagonist Noa (Owen Teague). His village is attacked by a marauding gang of more technologically advanced primates lead by the ambitious Proximus Caesar (Kevin Durand) and what results is a challenging journey for Noa to find both his family AND is place in the world. Directed by Wes Ball (The Maze Runner Trilogy) and also co-starring Freya Allen, it's time to see once again if....
Apes Together STRONG!
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What happens when you combine the directing trio (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker) behind the spoof smash Airplane , the on-screen debut of one of the beloved movie stars of his generation (Val Kilmer), one of the most acclaimed actors/movie stars of HIS generation (Omar Shariff), satire focusing on World War II spy dramas, musical numbers satirizing Elvis road comedies, one underwater Western saloon fight, AND one extended sequence playing on misperceptions of the Swedish language??
The result is one genuinely wacky comedy which came out just under forty years ago and there has been nothing like it since then. Also co-starring Lucy Gutteridge, Peter Cushing, and Michael Gough, it's time to go skeet surfing OR straighten the rug.....OR to shop at Macy's? :o
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Based on the beloved 1980's TV show starring Lee Majors, this romantic action comedy tells the story of a veteran stuntman Colt (Ryan Gosling), his director Jody (Emily Blunt), and ALL of the craziness which is occurring on and off the set of a major Hollywood production named where the main Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor Johnson) is apparently missing. Directed by former stuntman David Leitch (Atomic Blonde, Bullet Train), this movie is very much a love letter to stunt performers....with lots of other stuff thrown in....including inspired karaoke! :)
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If you're director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas, and you have been tasked with developing a sequel to one of the most beloved and highest grossing action adventures (Raiders of the Lost Ark) of all time, what do you do for a follow-up? Well in this case, you go broader, sillier, and DEFINITELY creepier! :o And apparently, you piss off millions of parents who were ok taking their children to see faces melting off on-screen for the previous one but draw the line at seeing some one rip the beating heart out of a man's chest! :o
What resulted was the PG-13 rating and one of the highest grossing blockbusters of the '80's.....which was also savagely criticized for its high levels of violence and (somewhat justifiably) the cultural insensitivity of several of its characters and its overall setting. And one HELL of a ride featuring several memorable action set pieces and at least ONE beloved side character (Short Round played by future Oscar-winner Ke Huy Quan). So on the verge of its 40th anniversary, how does this movie hold up? Let's find out as Harrison Ford is back as the titular hero along with several new cast-members including Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, and Kate Capshaw.
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From Oscar-nominated Italian director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name) comes a erotically charged drama about....tennis. At its core is a love triangle among three aspiring professional tennis players played by Zendaya, Josh O'Connor, and Mike Faist. We follow all three characters over a thirteen year period as they struggle through both their athletic careers and their relationships to each other. And playing throughout all of this is high-energy electronic music from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross....what else could you need?? :)
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Welcome to the Living for the Max series. Over the past 45 years, there has been no other film franchise QUITE as inventive nor as consistently exciting as The Mad Max Saga….four films mostly chronicling the post-apocalyptic adventures of lone wolf Max Roxatansky played three times by Mel Gibson and most recently by Tom Hardy. As each film has been directed by Australian cinematic genius George Miller, they have each reflected his unique vision while also being HUGELY influential on pop culture, more specifically the action genre. So needless to say, new ones don’t come around very often and when they do….it MORE than qualifies as a cinematic EVENT. Therefore over the next several months, I will be revisiting EACH entry of this beloved franchise every month leading up to the U.S. release of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga on May 24!
Starring Tom Hardy as the titular Max and Charlize Theron as Furiosa, this might be the most acclaimed (and possibly beloved) action saga of the 21st Century. It tells a simple story of a band of folks attempting to escape enslavement while picking up a couple of strays along the way. ;) One of those strays is Nux played by Nicholas Hoult and he joins a pretty strong extended cast which includes Zoe Kravitz, Riley Keogh, Rosie Huntington-Whitely, and Hugh Keays-Byrne as the frightening main villain, Immorten Joe. :o Also returning as director is the legendary George Miller who received an Oscar nomination for his work, along with nine other Oscar nominations including Best Picture. :) WHAT A LOVELY DAY INDEED!!!
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Fifty years ago saw the release of what ended up being one of the more iconic conspiracy thrillers of the 1970's even though it wasn't really a commercial hit upon initial release. Directed by Alan J. Pakula who would go on to direct the even more iconic All The President's Men a couple of years later, it stars Oscar-winning legend Warren Beatty as a journalist working for a small publication in the Pacific Northwest who inadvertently stumbles on a mysterious organization which might have been involved with the recent murder of a U.S. Senator. Once he finds his own life in danger as a result, he decides to attempt to infiltrate this organization and possibly even moonlight as a potential assassin himself to try to expose them and bring them down. And what results is a series of hair-raising situations which will test him in every conceivable way. ;o
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Denzel Washington stars in this intense drama/thriller as Creasey, a sad, alcoholic ex-CIA assassin who finds a new purpose in life as he forms a special friendship with the precocious Pita played by Dakota Fanning. Pita is the daughter of a Mexican industrialist played by Marc Antony who has hired Creasey to serve as a bodyguard since there has been a rash of kidnappings in their area. Tragedy occurs and then Creasey sets off on a brutal mission of revenge where we see his old habits as a trained killer start to manifest themselves. As directed by the late great Tony Scott, this was a film which saw modest success upon initial release twenty years ago but has since gone to grow a significant following.
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