The late master filmmaker Orson Welles once stated in an interview that The Trial was the best film he ever made. That’s highly unlikely since the American Film Institute voted Citizen Kane to be the greatest American film of all-time,…
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Whoa! Take it easy. I’m not here to grandstand about what an amazing and talented thespian Keanu Reeves is. It’s quite the opposite, actually. In fact, it probably wouldn’t be reaching very far to assume that a majority of film…
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Sure, everyone loves the stunning and talented Diane Lane. What’s not to love? However, who really cares about movies such as Nights in Rodanthe, Must Love Dogs and Under the Tuscan Sun? (Though, I will say I kind of liked…
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There’s something I need to get off my chest. Recently, the late legend Bruce Lee’s Enter The Dragon was on AMC, and it got me to thinking that I couldn’t remember the last recent film I saw that featured a…
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She can be sour and sweet, sometimes simultaneously. A while back, I did a feature on the fabulous Jennifer Jason Leigh where I mentioned the film Crooked Hearts and how delighted I was to see Leigh co-starring alongside the inimitable…
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Alright, in the interest of full disclosure, yours truly has seen bits and pieces of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance before. It was a film that “we” often used to run on the overhead screens behind us at the…
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People often say, “Beware of false prophets.” It’s an important life lesson, and Charles Laughton’s The Night Of The Hunter (his only credited directorial effort) perfectly exemplifies this warning. Another invaluable rule for folks to heed is, “Beware of false…
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Remember the movie, PCU? No, Jennifer Jason Leigh isn’t in the film. It’s a college comedy starring Jeremy Piven and Jon Favreau as campus clowns battling the politically correct tone that has taken over their university… but I digress. Anyway,…
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The Gambler, Kenny Rogers, said it himself in his hit song aptly titled The Gambler (that also spawned a series of TV movies), that “You got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em,” and blah, blah,…
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While I pride myself on not betting over my head and NEVER risk more than I can afford to lose, I wound up parting with more cash than I was really happy about during a recent trip to Atlantic City….
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