Swordfish feels like a forgotten action film. No one talks about it, it seems to have made it’s initial splash and then vanished from the general public’s memory, and while it isn’t a fantastic action film, it’s fun, and it has a very good cast Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Sam Shepard, Vinnie Jones,…
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) – Andrew Dominik
The western bio-pic, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is the final recommendation from the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book following my screening of The Wild Bunch. A beautiful and bleak film, the picture stars Brad Pitt, as the legendary outlaw, with Casey Affleck as his assassin. The…
Midnight Special (2016) – Jeff Nichols
Owing its pedigree to films of the 80s like John Carpenter’s Starman and Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Nichols writes and directs this science fiction road movie that is best viewed with little to no plot knowledge. So suffice to say, I won’t be saying much about story points in my review….
Trailer Tracks: The Right Stuff (1983) – Philip Kaufman
Kaufman shot this adaption of Tom Wolfe’s book about the beginning of the Mercury space program, interweaving it with the exploits of Chuck Yeager, into an epic three hour adventure about flilght, exploration and humanity. With a fantastic cast including Sam Shepard, Lance Henriksen, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward, Barbara Hershey, Veronica Cartwright, Jeff…
The Right Stuff (1983) – Philip Kaufman
“There was a demon that lived in the air…” I love a good epic film, and this film, The Right Stuff, is wonderfully so, based on Tom Wolfe’s book chronicling the launch of the space program, the training, the disasters, and the 7 brave men chosen to become Mercury astronauts. Boasting an all-star cast, the…
Black Hawk Down (2001)
So as Prometheus draws one day closer, I wanted to watch another of my Ridley Scott faves – so I settled in for Black Hawk Down. This movie is fantastic! But I only own it on DVD, as I refuse to upgrade my copy to blu-ray until Sony releases the deluxe edition as opposed to…
The Mind Reels 