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“Harry Brown” stars Michael Caine, a respected older actor who has been acting on stage, television and movies for over 60 years. He has no gaps in his resume, in fact his fame has accumulated moreso in recent years. The main premise of the story is that of the vigilante. Vigilante movies are sort of their own sub-category. Other vigilante movies are ones like the Death Wish series starring Charles [read...] 
After directing the low budget cult classics Evil Dead 1 and 2, Director Sam Raimi signed on to make his first big studio feature. It was a film based on a short story he wrote that paid tribute to some of his favorite Universal horror films such as The Invisible Man and Frankenstein. Darkman was a blending of the crime, horror, comedy and super hero genres that exploded onto the [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...] 
Clint Eastwood’s High Plains Drifter opens in very much the same way as the 1964 spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars in which “The Man With No Name” (later revealed to actually have a name: Joe/Manco/Blondie) rides into a small town on horseback. The main difference being this character first appears like an apparition from the sunbaked desert. A mysterious stranger (Eastwood) slowly gallops into the desolate lakeside mining town of [read...] 
The basic definition of a Vigilante is: “a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate); or a self-appointed doer of justice”. In the world of cinema the vigilante has been one of the most popular character types. From B-movies to big budget films these kinds of stories about people who go on personal, ‘mad as [read...] 
Artist James O’Barr’s The Crow was originally a series of indie comics that were published in the late 80s and later turned into a comprehensive graphic novel. It told the tale of Eric Draven, a Detroit based rock musician who is murdered along with his fiancee Shelly on Devil’s Night. A year later Eric rises from the grave to seek vengeance on the criminals who were responsible for their [read...] 
The crime genre film has been one of the most popular forms of cinema since the early days of Hollywood. These kinds of heightened, dramatic, violent stories about outsiders in society who live on their own terms have always captivated filmgoers. In the 1930s and 40s gangster pictures were all the furious rage. Actors like James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, Paul Muni and Humphrey Bogart gained popularity in roles as [read...] 
South Korean director Chan Wook Park‘s award winning film Oldboy (2003) is a mindbending story of two men’s quest for revenge. It’s also a strange, incestuous love story. The night of his young daughters birthday, local businessman Oh Dae-su (Choi Min Sik) is arrested after getting in a drunken fight. Luckily he’s bailed out by his good friend Joo-Hwan (Ji Dae-han). Oh Dae-su calls home to tell his daughter (who [read...] |
   
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