“I’m as mad as hell…and I’m not going to take it anymore!” – Howard Beale That is one of the most famous quotes in the history of cinema. It expresses the anger and frustration of all humans feel towards oppressive things in their life and it’s been heavily referenced over […]
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On April 1st, Universal Home Video will release another classic Clint Eastwood Western, John Sturges’ JOE KIDD (1972) on Blu Ray and Digital HD with Ultraviolet. Joe Kidd (Eastwood) is an ex bounty hunter who has been jailed for hunting on Indian land and drunkenly disturbing the peace in a […]
There’s an old saying that goes “War is hell” and that is surely true but when you watch Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now, it also shows that it can be exhillerating in many ways. Nothing conveys this notion better than the catastrophic helicopter attack on a small coastal […]
Falling Down is proof that not all Joel Schumacher films suck (it’s mainly just his Batman movies). This is a great film that I believe should be known as a classic, among the ranks of Scarface, Die Hard and other timeless must see movies. (That is the quick review should […]
Fresh off the success of the award winning masterpiece The Godfather (1972), Robert Duvall took a role in this film playing Earl Macklin, a convict who is being released back into society after a stretch in prison. Macklin doesn’t know yet that as he’s breathing in the fresh air of […]
FILM REVIEW In between making his hit films The Godfather Parts 1 and 2, Francis Ford Coppola chose to develop an original screenplay he had written several years earlier. This was, like his 1969 film The Rain People another of his smaller, more personal works and very much an example […]
In the early 70s, movie audiences were certainly accustomed to crime films, yet when Francis Ford Coppola’s gloriously endearing mafia film was released in 1972, it clearly transcended all the rest. Featuring a cast of such acting luminaries as Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro and Robert Duvall, it has […]
Michael Douglas stars as William Foster a divorcée who loses his job as a defense engineer. Foster (known in the film only from his car’s license plate which reads D-FENS) is stuck in a traffic jam and has a nervous breakdown. Foster simply leaves his car where it is and […]
In 1962 Harper Lee’s best selling classic American novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” became a feature film. Director Robert Mulligan and Screenwriter Horton Foote adapted the story about a Southern family into one of the finest productions to come out of Hollywood. It looks at lives of a lawyer named […]