OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS: Joel and Ethan Coen’s career-long darkly comic road trip through misfit America began with this razor-sharp, hard-boiled neonoir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner releases a torrent of violence with one murderous thought. Actor M. Emmet Walsh looms over the proceedings as a slippery private […]
1984
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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 […]
After decades of waiting for a definitive version of the late great director Sergio Leone’s final masterpiece ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA, we’re extremely thrilled to announce Warner Home Video will be releasing the 1984 gangster epic in a brand new remastered Once Upon a Time in America Extended […]
“I like to watch.” Throughout the 1970s, Director Brian DePalma established himself as one of the best of The Movie Brat collective of filmmakers which included Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese. In the early 80s his erotic thriller Dressed To Kill got him labeled a misogynistic Hitchcock ripoff […]
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 […]
Leave it to the fine folks at Criterion to pull yet another hat trick in the new year with what I consider to be the ultimate home video release of Alex Cox’s 1984 cult sci-fi comedy-punk rock masterpiece REPO MAN. Now if you’re a film geek who grew up in […]
To celebrate the month of Noirvember I wanted to delve into the first wave of film noir and its post-modern form that is every bit as exciting. Neo Noir is the (usually) colorized counterpart to the classical black and white films of the 40s-late 50s. They often feature the same […]
Indie Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has always made films that are, to me, akin to punk rock: simple yet extremely effective and powerful. Especially his early works such as the 1984 absurdist comedy Stranger Than Paradise which I revisited recently. He is continuously able to take a minimalist approach to cinema […]
After making his buddy cop hit 48 Hrs., Walter Hill directed a film that was inspired by the movies he grew up on. It was a wild homage filled with the kinds of images and themes he loved most about those movies such as: “custom cars, kissing in the rain, […]
“It took DUNE about nine minutes to completely strip me of my anticipation. This movie is a real mess, an incomprehensible, ugly, unstructured, pointless excursion into the murkier realms of one of the most confusing screenplays of all time. Even the color is no good; everything is seen through a […]