Movies just wouldn’t be as exciting if they didn’t contain those colorfully warped characters known as “villains”. Often times these people are merely twisted, lonely, misunderstood souls that have been psychologically damaged and/or are out for revenge. Then there’s the flat out, pure evil ones who have nothing driving them […]
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I fucking love Roy Scheider. Whether it be his freak out moments, his L-shaped nose or the fact that he’s also a New Jersey native, he was one of cinema’s greatest actors. He’s best known for his work as Chief Martin Brody in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, but there’s some gems […]
“You ain’t stopping at this hotel, kid. My hotel! The stars at night, I put ’em there. And I know the presidents, all of them. And I go where I damn well please. Even the chairman of the New York Central can’t do it better. My road, kid, and I […]
In honor of the late director Sam Peckinpah’s birthday we’ve chosen a special furious poster for today’s feature. Enjoy! Based on the novel “The Siege of Trencher’s Farm” Peckinpah’s 1971 film Straw Dogs was one of the most controversial of his legendary career. A quiet mathematician David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) […]
Demi Moore is one furious female in G.I. Jane! After making his ‘women fighting back’ film Thelma and Louise, Ridley Scott decided to tell the story of another rebellious gal and it ended up being one of my personal favorite films from his entire filmography. Lt. Jordan O’ Neill (Demi […]
One of the most highly rewatchable films from the late 1980s is Rowdy Herrington’s Good Ol’ Boy action film ROAD HOUSE (1989). I remember seeing the preview for this film back at my first theatrical viewing of Tim Burton’s BATMAN. I wasn’t too impressed by Road House’s trailer at the […]
In 1972, Robert Culp (Hannie Caulder) directed this neo-noir crime film set in Los Angeles. Culp co-wrote the screenplay with Walter Hill who would make his directorial debut with Hard Times (1975). Culp also cast his longtime friend and I Spy series co-star Bill Cosby in the role of Hickey. […]
Michael Douglas stars as William Foster a divorcée who loses his job as a defense engineer. Foster (known in the film only from his car’s license plate which reads D-FENS) is stuck in a traffic jam and has a nervous breakdown. Foster simply leaves his car where it is and […]
In the 60s Mission Impossible TV program, Martin Landau starred as IMF super agent Roland Hand and Peter Graves played Jim Phelps, his main IMF contact. You may remember the iconic opening sequences where Hand would receive his debriefings on a hidden tape recorder and directly after, Phelps would state […]
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 […]