Miami Blues
I don’t know if you guys have ever heard of this one. It’s a weird crime movie starring Fred Ward as a cop with fake teeth, Alec Baldwin as a crook who steals his teeth, and Jennifer Jason Leigh as...
View ArticleThe Departed
If you saw INFERNAL AFFAIRS you know the storyline. Undercover cop vs. undercover gangster. There’s alot of stories about cops going undercover in gangs, but this one also has a member of the crime...
View ArticleThick As Thieves
Today I have for you a review of an obscure Alec Baldwin movie, complete with a tangent about Obama’s choice of condiments. THICK AS THIEVES is a little-known crime movie from 1998 that I learned about...
View ArticlePearl Harbor
chapter 4 released May 25th, 2001 WARNING: contains spoilers for PEARL HARBOR and World War II After three financially successful action movies in a row (BAD BOYS, THE ROCK, ARMAGEDDON), Michael Bay...
View ArticleFinal Fantasy: The Spirits Within (10 years later)
chapter 9 Let me tell you man, I’m not trying to commemorate the tenth anniversary of this movie. There’s no celebration here at all. It’s just analysis, I swear. I saw FINAL FANTASY in the theater...
View ArticleMission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
It’s been a joke for quite some time that Tom Cruise, like Prince or Keanu Reeves, never ages. Actually, now he’s starting to show some age, and I like it. He has a few more lines on his face, a little...
View ArticleThe Shadow
a survey of summer movies that just didn’t catch on (NOTE: I’ve decided to go back to cover two Summer Flings that I regret having skipped.) July 1, 1994 Look, I can’t say for sure what audiences were...
View ArticleMercury Rising
also April 3, 1998 MERCURY RISING opened on the same day as LOST IN SPACE, and I skipped it until now, too, despite it starring Bruce. I guess I figured it wasn’t a real action movie, it was some...
View ArticleMission: Impossible – Fallout
On the way home from the new MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE I mentioned to a grocery store checker that I had just seen and enjoyed it. He asked if I was a big fan of “the original series” and as we discussed...
View ArticleBlacKkKlansman
BLACKkKLANSMAN is the new Spike Lee joint, and it seems like it’s getting way more attention than at least the last decade of his jointography. I don’t remember half this much interest in CHI-RAQ,...
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