How often do you see a star-packed mainstream film whose focus is the sexual abuse of children in the penal system? Sleepers was not a resounding success upon its release, perhaps the material was deemed a bit too controversial for the time. Regardless it’s a provocative film that not only […]
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On September 18th Warner Archive will release Franklin J. Schaffner’s adventure/prison drama PAPILLON starring Steve McQueen on BluRay. Based on a true story, this 70s classic features one of McQueen’s finest performances. Co-starring Dustin Hoffman, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe and Woodrow Parfrey. Synopsis: They called him Papillon, meaning butterfly. If only he had wings […]
Based on the novel by writer William Goldman, John Schlesinger’s 1976 thriller Marathon Man marked his second collaboration with Dustin Hoffman who he first worked with on the 1969 counter-culture classic Midnight Cowboy. At a bank in New York City an elderly man named Klaus Szell (Ben Dova) checks on […]
This week in Blu Releases: Three classic films from directors who have made their own unique impacts on the world of cinema. One is a 90s trippy crime caper-comedy, the second, a 70s revisionist Western-adventure, the third, a 50s court potboiler. Although their content is entirely unrelated, what they do […]
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) […]
In Ulu Grossbard’s crime film/character study Straight Time (1978) Dustin Hoffman stars as Max Dembo a career criminal who is newly released from prison. Max tries to stay on the straight and narrow, he even starts a relationship with a woman (Theresa Russell) he meets at an unemployment office but […]