Drive the 2011 neo-noir film starring Ryan Gosling is reviewed. It isn’t often that such a classicly rendered film noir hits the mainstream. Make no mistake about what Drive is and isn’t: it isn’t an L.A. Confidential-style period piece, nor is…
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Who’s the Baddest ’70s “Blaxploitation” Character?
What’s Your Favorite Movie Stunt?
Who doesn’t remember Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (or, more accurately, Mr. Newman’s and Mr. Redford’s stunt doubles) jumping off that cliff? Can cinema fans ever forget James Bond skiing off the edge of Mount Asgard? (Well, I did indeed forget…
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O Captains! My Captains!
Movie FanFare offers a star-spangled salute to the movie and TV appearances of shield-slinging superhero Captain America, from 1944’s Republic serial to this year’s big-budget actioner starring Chris Evans as Cap.
Read more →You Haven’t Lived Until You’ve Seen Armageddon on a Cross-Country Flight
Guest blogger Red Beard writes: I left the humidity of Washington, DC yesterday to return to the beautiful weather of Southern California. (Sadly I left the even more beautiful future Mrs. Red Beard….sigh). On a lot of flights that across…
Read more →The Naked Jungle: Eleanor Parker and Charlton Heston Find Love – and a Lot of Ants
Guest blogger Rick 29 writes: The producing-directing team of George Pal and Byron Haskin followed up their classic War of the Worlds with The Naked Jungle (1954), a well-written character study which builds to a lively climax involving billions of soldier…
Read more →Red Starring Karl Urban: An Interview
Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Mary-Louise Parker head the cast of the new action-comedy Red. But it was veteran thespian Ernest Borgnine who really made an impression on actor Karl Urban. “Having Ernest Borgnine on set…
Read more →Movie Poll: What’s Your Favorite “Men on a Mission” movie?
Macho, Macho Movies
Does The Expendables, which is smashing into theaters with a cast that includes Stallone, Statham, Li, Rourke, Austin, Lundgren, Couture, Crews, Willis, Schwarzenegger, et al., have the toughest cast of all time? Well, it certainly is one of the most…
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