FILM REVIEW 10 years after working together on the crime classic Scarface (1983), Brian DePalma and Al Pacino reunited for another crime film/character study called Carlito’s Way (1993). Where Scarface ended, Carlito’s Way begins. The main difference between the characters of Tony Montana and Carlito Brigante is the attitude the characters […]
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On August 14th, Sony Pictures Home Video will release Brian DePalma’s 1989 classic CASUALTIES OF WAR on BluRay. BUY FROM AMAZON Synopsis: Hailed by critics as a masterpiece, CASUALTIES OF WAR is based on the true story of a squad of soldiers caught in the moral quagmire of wartime Vietnam. Witness to […]
Brian DePalma’s 1989 masterpiece Casualties of War is not only brilliantly directed and acted but it is also one of the greatest anti-war movies ever made. Based on a true event called The Incident on Hill 192, Michael J. Fox plays Pvt. Max Eriksson (Michael J. Fox) who is on […]
Terry Noonan (Sean Penn) has been absent from his old neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen, NYC for many years. While he was away a few things changed…such as him becoming a police officer in Boston. When he’s picked for a special undercover assignment infiltrating the Irish mob in New York City […]
Our latest analytical article looks at two films by David Fincher and compares and contrasts themes and characters that connect the movies. “The game is tailored specifically to each participant. Think of it as a great vacation, except you don’t go to it, it comes to you.” In the 1997 […]
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen. I am here today to write to you about a movie that is held very highly among many movie geeks, but for some reason I can’t help but loving the original so much more, especially (but not exclusively) because hardly anyone has ever heard of it. […]
If you’ve got a halfway decent taste in movies, then the name Terrence Malick will ring a bell. It’s not one of those super-busy actors who make a popcorn movie every other year. He’s more like Thomas Pynchon, lives in seclusion, makes a hit every once in a while, and […]
10 years after working together on the crime classic Scarface (1983), Brian DePalma and Al Pacino reunited for another crime film/character study called Carlito’s Way (1993). Where Scarface ended, Carlito’s Way begins. The main difference between the characters of Tony Montana and Carlito Brigante is the attitude the characters have […]
My first encounter with the late writer Charles Bukowski’s work wasn’t through his literature, it was from watching the film Barfly (1987). It was directed by Barbet Shroeder and starred Mickey Rourke (Sin City) as Bukowski’s alter-ego, Henry Chinaski. Right away, it sucked me in as the opening credits rolled […]