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One of my personal favorite movies from the 1970s, Roman Polanski’s crime-mystery neo-noir Chinatown is hitting Blu Ray April 3rd! Set in the late 1930s, Jack Nicholson plays J.J. “Jake” Gittes, a Los Angeles gumshoe who is hired to keep tabs on Hollis Mulwray an engineer for the cities’ Department of Water and Power. After Mulwray is later found murdered, Gittes decides to continue investigating and find out who was [read...] 
“When you decide to be something, you can be it. That’s what they don’t tell you in the church. When I was your age they would say we can become cops, or criminals. Today, what I’m saying to you is this: when you’re facing a loaded gun, what’s the difference?” – Frank Costello Director Martin Scorsese made his mark in cinema telling furious tales about criminals. He began his [read...] 
One of the most important and iconic films in cinema history is Easy Rider. It was directed by veteran actor Dennis Hopper in 1969 and has since become a cult classic for generations of cineasts. Wyatt aka Captain America (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) travel to Mexico to buy some yayo (cocaine) from a cheap seller. They try the coke and they laugh at how good it is. Wyatt [read...] In the 1992 big screen adaptation of the story of Jimmy Hoffa, Jack Nicholson stars as the legendary teamster president. Danny DeVito directs and also plays Hoffa’s confidant Bobby Ciaro, a fictional character that is based on a combination of Hoffa’s real life friends. The screenplay is by David Mamet (The Untouchables, Glengarry Glenross). While the story is based on Hoffa’s real life, Mamet and DeVito added embellishments to enhance [read...] While Easy Rider (1969) wasn’t the first counterculture film ever made, it was a benchmark work of cinema that had a special resonance with audiences of it’s era. It struck a vital nerve with the 60s generation and the eclectic rock music chosen by Director Dennis Hopper was a very important part of the structure and atmosphere of the film as well. It conveyed as many political and social [read...] |
   
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