January 2009
8 posts
Heaven's Gate (1980)
Directed by Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter)
Starring Kris Kristofferson, John Hurt, Christopher Walken, Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, etc.
IMDB Synopsis: “Michael Cimino’s bleak anti-western based on events in 1890s Wyoming. Sheriff James Averill attempts to protect immigrant farmers from wealthy cattle interests, and also clashes with a hired gun, Nathan Champion,...
Valkyrie (2008)
Though the purpose of this page is to update you all on the progress of my netflix usage, a few people have asked me if I would be writing up movies that I saw in theaters as well, and I suppose I will from time to time.
Directed by Bryan Singer (X-Men, Usual Suspects, Superman Returns, Apt Pupil)
Starring Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branaugh, Terence “General Zod” Stamp, Eddie Izzard, Tom...
Interview With The Assassin (2002)
This movie, like Falling Down, I had wanted to see for a long time, but not from any reviews. The only thing I knew about the movie was from seeing the cover of it at Blockbuster. I had read the synopsis a few times, and I was intrigued… but never intrigued enough to actually rent it.
Directed by Neil Burger (The Illusionist - the non-Prestige magician movie)
Starring Raymond J. Barry...
Diner (1982)
Speaking of Mickey Rourke and an all star group of people who were huge stars briefly to have that careers kind of fizzle out, we have…
Starring Mickey Rourke, Paul Reiser, Daniel Stern, Steve Guttenberg, Tim Daly of Wings fame (the television show, not the band), Kevin Bacon, Ellen Barkin, and the guy who plays Mr. Tibbles in D2
Directed by Barry Levinson’s feature debut (Rain...
Rumble Fish (1983)
Starring Matt Dillon and Mickey Rourke, also with Dennis Hopper, Diane Lane and Nicholas Cage
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
IMDB Synopsis: “Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug struggles to live up to his legendary older brother, Motorcyle Boy’s, reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.”
In 1983 Francis Ford Coppola adapted two S.E. Hinton...
I got my first DVD in the mail yesterday, and promptly watched it before going to sleep last night.
LAYER CAKE (2004)
Starring Daniel Craig
Directed by Matthew Vaughn (Producer for Guy Ritchie’s Lock Stock and Snatch)
I’ve heard raves about this since it came out, but I had never seen the whole thing. Uncle Jim loves it, and so does my friend Danny from high school. I did try to...
NEW JACK CITY (1991)
Two nights ago I watched the early ’90s equivalent of a blaxploitation film called, “New Jack City” on my instant queue:
Starring Ice T, Judd Nelson, Chris Rock and Wesley Snipes
Directed by Marion Van Peebles (the robot from Solo)
IMDB Synopsis: “A modern-day crime epic focusing on the efforts of two unorthodox police officers to bring down a drug gang at the...
It Begins...
Hello all. Steve here, with the much anticipated Netflix Blog. The purpose, again, is to let you know how I am spending this generous, wonderful, and social-life destroying gift. I haven’t much time since JJ has been in town for the last week, but here is one that we did get around to seeing.
Falling Down (1993)
Starring Michael Douglas and Robert Duvall
For the past few years I have...