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With spring-summer approaching, I’ve been recently thinking about the many movies that take place in that warm time of the year. After going over the titles I could cover, I realized it would be a perfect opportunity to look back on the first film I ever saw by one of my favorite filmmakers Spike Lee, that being his controversial 1989 masterpiece Do The Right Thing. The film immediately bombards viewers [read...] 
From the opening moments of Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant (1992) when New York Police Officer “L.T.” (Harvey Keitel) drives his bratty kids to school we can see he is a furious human being. As he watches the kids leave he sneaks a few snorts of coke just to wake him up. When he gets to his latest job in the city (the scene of a double murder) the dark mood [read...] 
In the mad as hell Belgian crime-drama BULLHEAD Matthias Schoenaerts stars as a steroid injecting cattle farmer named Jacky Vanmarsenille who is caught up in shady dealings with a veteranarian who asks him to purchase a load of mafia owned beef. After the sudden assassination of a federal officer investigating the situation and a secret from Jackie’s past reemerges, things takes a very dark turn. As you can see in [read...] 
Fresh off the success of the award winning masterpiece The Godfather (1972), Robert Duvall took a role in this film playing Earl Macklin, a convict who is being released back into society after a stretch in prison. Macklin doesn’t know yet that as he’s breathing in the fresh air of freedom, his brother Eddie has been shot down at his farmhouse by two hitmen. Macklin is picked up by his [read...] 
Peter Yates’ 1979 coming of age-teen-sports drama Breaking Away tells the story of four teenage rebels without a cause from Bloomington, Indiana who have recently graduated high school and must plan on what to do with their future. Dave (Dennis Christopher) is obsessed with Italy and bicycling. He’s an aloof, funny kid that has a bit of an eccentric personality. Mike (Dennis Quaid) wants to be somebody and live somewhere [read...] 
Spike Lee’s 1992 epic biographical masterwork was a true labor of love for the director. It was first going to be made by Norman Jewison (In The Heat of The Night) but after protesting that a black filmmaker should make the film, Lee was hired to direct. During the production it ran into financial trouble, luckily, several African-American entertainers such as Bill Cosby and Oprah Winfrey (among others) helped get [read...] 
Bobby O’Grady (Denis Leary) is an Irish-American hood from Boston. We are introduced to him as he and his buddy Mouse (Ian Hart) are racing a couple of stolen cars back to a fence (Lenny Clarke) where they’ll collect some cash for their trouble. Later on they meet up with Digger (John Diehl) a studdering cabbie and Bobby’s cousin Seamus (Jason Barry) who is from Ireland. They drink, snort coke [read...] 
Throughout the history of cinema, there really haven’t been many films made about the oil industry, the only other one I can think of is George Steven’s epic Giant. Where that is a shiny 50s melodrama similar to a Douglas Sirk film, Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood has more in common with the gothic horror cinema of Val Lewton or a noir western like High Plains Drifter. [read...] 
This week in Blu Releases: Three classic films from directors who have made their own unique impacts on the world of cinema. One is a 90s trippy crime caper-comedy, the second, a 70s revisionist Western-adventure, the third, a 50s court potboiler. Although their content is entirely unrelated, what they do share is cinematic storytelling at its finest. This Coen Brothers film was a sleeper that went on to become a [read...] 
Michael Shannon (The Runaways, Boardwalk Empire) stars as Curtis LaForche a crew chief for a sand mining company who begins having severely disturbing nightmares about an approaching apocalyptic storm. Obsessed by these terrible visions, and convinced they are a real prediction, Curtis decides to build a storm shelter in his backyard. Meanwhile his unpredictable, irrational behavior is starting to cause big problems with his family and friends. This looks like [read...] |
   
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