When it comes to a movie cop who doesn’t play by the rules, usually the very first name that people think of is Harry Callahan from the Dirty Harry franchise. He’s one of the main cops in film that used the famous “shoot first, talk later” tactic which later became […]
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“Mumbo Jumbo! Mumbo Jumbo!” In 1999 Director Roman Polanski returned to familiar territory with the devilishly entertaining supernatural mystery-thriller The Ninth Gate. Johnny Depp plays Dean Corso a rare book dealer who is in the business primarily to make big money and use his expertise to scam clients that don’t […]
Beverly Hills Cop is one of our favorite furious films of the 80s. Eddie Murphy plays Detective Axel Foley, a rebellious Detroit cop who travels out to Beverly Hills to investigate the death of his childhood friend Mikey (James Russo) who was murdered while visiting him. Working in association with […]
Tony (Richard Panebianco) is a good hearted kid from Little Italy who attends a dance club one night. He seems to move through the bustling crowd magnetized by something we can’t see. He soon encounters a pretty young Chinese girl named Tye (Sari Chang) and they begin dancing as if […]
Quentin Tarantino‘s latest .44 magnum opus Django Unchained marks his first foray into the Western genre (well, it’s actually more of a Southern) and also gives us his take on the “hero origin” story. Unlike his epic Kill Bill where we don’t know how the story of Beatrix Kiddo aka […]
Mike Newell’s 1997 mob classic Donnie Brasco is based on the true story of FBI agent Joe Pistone, a man who went undercover into the New York City mafia to help get evidence to indite members of the organization. Even though Newell wasn’t a veteran of crime cinema compared to […]