Under the radar but blessed with an A-list cast as well as behind-the-scenes creative personnel, The Don is Dead is a mafia story heavily influenced by the previous year’s blockbuster The Godfather. When a mafia kingpin unexpectedly dies, a question lingers: who will take his place? Angelo (Anthony Quinn), all […]
Frederic Forrest
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Falling Down is proof that not all Joel Schumacher films suck (it’s mainly just his Batman movies). This is a great film that I believe should be known as a classic, among the ranks of Scarface, Die Hard and other timeless must see movies. (That is the quick review should […]
Two of our favorite film classics are hitting Blu Ray! Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 conspiracy masterpiece The Conversation starring Gene Hackman and David Lynch’s 1986 psychological mystery thriller Blue Velvet starring Kyle McLachlan, Isabella Rosselini, Laura Dern and Dennis Hopper. Both these movies have garnered a devoted following from film […]
“My film isn’t about Vietnam… it is Vietnam. And the way we made it was very much the way the Americans were in Vietnam. We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment and little by little we […]
In between making The Godfather 1 and 2, Director Francis Ford Coppola made another classic that’s not quite as popular but every bit as great as those. The Conversation stars Gene Hackman as Harry Caul, a surveillance expert who finds himself at odds with a client when his latest job […]