Warner Archive will be releasing a newly restored edition of Michael Cimino’s 1985 neo-noir classic YEAR OF THE DRAGON. Corruption. Extortion. Sometimes, even assassination. For the tradition-bound mob bosses of Manhattan’s Chinatown, there are age-old ways of running things. And now there’s police captain Stanley White’s way. Synopsis: Mickey Rourke […]
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“No money, no job, no rent. Hey, I’m back to normal.” Barbet Schroeder’s 1987 booze soaked drama BARFLY is based on a screenplay by the late great poet/author Charles Bukowski. Mickey Rourke stars as Henry Chinaski (Bukowski’s alter ego) a down n’ outer who extolls virtues in between getting soused. […]
For most super hero movie geeks, Jon Favreau’s big screen adaptation of Iron Man (2008) basically blew most other films in that subgenre out of the water. While I loved Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight films, I’m still a Marvel devotee first. From a young age Spider Man was always my […]
Sin City is based on the graphic novel series of the same name by Artist Frank Miller. Miller is most famous for Sin City but has done other stories like The Dark Knight Returns, 300 and Hard Boiled (unrelated to the John Woo film). I saw the movie before I […]
“Better to be alive and cool, than dead and uncool.” – Harley Simon Wincer (imdb), director of such Disney flicks as Operation Dumbo and Free Willy, also made Lonesome Dove and the Aussie western Quigley Down Under, to name some of the more popular motion pictures in his portfolio. He […]
My first encounter with the late writer Charles Bukowski’s work wasn’t through his literature, it was from watching the film Barfly (1987). It was directed by Barbet Shroeder and starred Mickey Rourke (Sin City) as Bukowski’s alter-ego, Henry Chinaski. Right away, it sucked me in as the opening credits rolled […]