Bill Duke’s 1997 gangster drama HOODLUM starring Laurence Fishburne will be coming to BluRay from Olive Films on July 19th. BUY FROM AMAZON In 1930s Harlem, Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson (Fishburne) has been released from Sing Sing prison and is back on the mean streets. In need of money he heads […]
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In a white wintry abyss, the sounds of Ennio Morricone‘s ominous score plays as a stagecoach slowly comes into view. Sitting square in the path of the horse drawn buggy upon a heap of dead bodies is Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson) an ex-Union officer turned bounty hunter. He […]
The Wild West will be getting a whole lot wilder in Quentin Tarantino‘s upcoming thriller THE HATEFUL EIGHT. The first inglorious trailer for the movie gives us a visually striking and crackling dialogue filled introduction to QT’s rowdy rogues gallery of 18th century law abiders and breakers. Kurt Russell is […]
Quentin Tarantino‘s upcoming western thriller THE HATEFUL EIGHT caused quite a ruckus even before it began filming – but that’s just making us anticipate it all the more. By now you probably know the basic premise of the story but in furious film geek fashion we’ve gone a bit further […]
There’s been a lot of great films made about criminals of the Prohibition era from Scarface (1932) to The St Valentines Day Massacre (1967) to Once Upon a Time in America (1984). One of my favorites of the last 20 years is HOODLUM (1997) directed by Bill Duke. Film fans […]
Four Rooms is an anthology (mostly comedy) of four stories each one by a different writer/director (Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino). Tim Roth stars as Ted The Bellhop, the character that connects the stories together. Each one takes place in a different room of the hotel […]