Deathline aka Redline (1997) – Director: Tibor Takács – 4/10 (passable/mediocre)Unique as its locations and grimy interiors prove, there is not much else to recommend about the movie, which fails to satisfy in terms of technical execution, characterization and the subject matter; one could uncontroversially call it a dead-on standard […]
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Highball is an episodic comedy by Noah Baumbach from 1997. The movie is about three parties that the young couple Diane (Lauren Katz) and Travis (Christopher Reed) are hosting. The first one is a birthday birthday bash for Travis’ friend Felix (Carlos Jacott), who is not amused about the surprise […]
Bill Duke’s 1997 gangster drama HOODLUM starring Laurence Fishburne will be coming to BluRay from Olive Films on July 19th. BUY FROM AMAZON In 1930s Harlem, Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson (Fishburne) has been released from Sing Sing prison and is back on the mean streets. In need of money he heads […]
Recently I discovered a film called City of Industry (1997) directed by John Irvin whose credits include The Dogs of War (1981), Raw Deal (1986) and Hamburger Hill (1987). At first I wasn’t sure what the movie was about, from the title I thought it might be a story about […]
There’s been a lot of great films made about criminals of the Prohibition era from Scarface (1932) to The St Valentines Day Massacre (1967) to Once Upon a Time in America (1984). One of my favorites of the last 20 years is HOODLUM (1997) directed by Bill Duke. Film fans […]
During the late 60s into the 1970s, the civil rights movement was at the apex of its impact on popular culture and this had an important effect on the movie industry as well. Black filmmakers such as Melvin Van Peebles were finally able to make groundbreaking works of rebellious indie […]
Q: What do you get when you put John Travolta and Nicolas Cage in a John Woo film? A: Some really great cinema! I first got into John Woo’s films in my teens with the releases of Hard Target (1993) and Broken Arrow (1996). I then checked out his earlier Hong […]