“Women get this movie much quicker than men. Women also understand. You know, for so many years men throw the word ‘rape’ around and never thought about what they were saying. And I think the picture makes men think about something that’s very important, that we understand the pain and embarrassment and […]
Jon Voight
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“A guy told me one time, “Don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.” – Neil McCauley Michael Mann’s 1995 crime thriller HEAT is my favorite film out of all his […]
The classic 1972 action-thriller DELIVERANCE was based on a book by author James Dickey (look for a cameo by him in the film as the suspicious Sheriff). The story focuses on four friends, Lewis (Burt Reynolds), Ed (Jon Voight), Drew (Ronny Cox) and Bobby (Ned Beatty) who take a weekend […]
Runaway Train is a fast paced, action-adventure film that was based on a screenplay by Akira Kurosawa and shelved due to financial troubles. The rights to the abandoned script was later bought and re-written by Djordje Millicevic, Eddie Bunker and Paul Zindel and turned into a film directed by Andrei […]
Have you ever seen the Simpsons episode where they paddle through the swamps and then you hear cracking in the bushes and a banjo playing? Do you think that is a random thing? No it isn’t, just like the other gazillion references to the Banjo Duel in Deliverance. John Boorman‘s […]
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 […]