Welcome back to our Legendary Musicians in Movies week! Last time, there was one thing I forgot to mention about The Buddy Holly Story. It’s the controversial lawsuit from two members of the Crickets (Buddy’s band), due to the usage of the band’s name and inaccuracies in the movie. (You […]
Oliver Stone
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In the 80s, Oliver Stone‘s cynical look at turbo capitalism in Wall Street (1987) was widely lauded as a seminal movie that gained cult status, and bolstered the careers of Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen (aka Carlos Estevez). Stone’s recent sequel Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps however was a […]
Brian DePalma and Screenwriter Oliver Stone’s 1983 update of the Howard Hawks gangster classic is one of our favorite furious films (READ OUR FULL REVIEW). The poster we’ve chosen is the alternate Australian design which recalls the illustrated kinds that were very popular in the 70s. We’ve also included the […]
FILM REVIEW The first time I ever watched Scarface was when I was 10 years old in 1984. I had heard about the film and knew of its controversial reputation even back then so I was really curious to see what it was all about. At the time VHS was […]
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen. I am here today to write to you about a movie that is held very highly among many movie geeks, but for some reason I can’t help but loving the original so much more, especially (but not exclusively) because hardly anyone has ever heard of it. […]