Writer-Director James Gunn’s glorious Marvel Cinematic space opus begins with a surprisingly emotional scene where a young boy experiences a life changing, traumatic event when his mother dies. The shocked, heartbroken child runs crying outside the hospital into the night where a spaceship suddenly shines its light down and transports him […]
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“What a bunch of A-holes” It’s finally here, the highly anticipated first trailer for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy set to the sounds of Blue Swede’s 70s pop bubblegum hit “Hooked On A Feeling”. This is going to easily be the strangest installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far. […]
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 […]
The Eye of Bill “The Butcher” As Bill The Butcher (Daniel Day Lewis) stands in the cold snow, the camera cuts in to an extreme close up of his evil glass eye which features the image of an American eagle. Gangs of New York: Being a longtime fan of Scorsese, […]
In the 1992 big screen adaptation of the story of Jimmy Hoffa, Jack Nicholson stars as the legendary teamster president. Danny DeVito directs and also plays Hoffa’s confidant Bobby Ciaro, a fictional character that is based on a combination of Hoffa’s real life friends. The screenplay is by David Mamet […]