remembering the films that the audience forgot
“I didn’t read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I’m older. I read them all.”
— Steven Spielberg
Runaway Train is one-third prison escape movie and two-thirds runaway train movie.
After busting out of an Alaskan maximum-security prison, manny (Jon Voight) and buck (Eric Roberts) cross a frozen wasteland and hop on a train. But, when the engineer has a heart attack the train becomes a…… RUNAWAY TRAIN!
Read MoreRyan Gosling plays a nameless Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver for hire. He’s a man without a past (at least not a past that we’re ever told about). He’s quiet and a loner. and then he meets his neighbour and her son. A bond begins to grow and when her husband gets out of jail and an event occurs that could threaten them, the driver must take matters into his own hands to protect them.
Read MoreDries is a famous writer. One day three losers ring his buzzer and ask him to be the drummer in their band. Sounds like that could be the start of a funny, family-friendly rock and roll movie right? Well, IT ISN'T! It’s the start of the flemish film, Ex Drummer.
Read MoreBack in the latter half of the aughts - following the box office failure of a few films - all the talk was about the death of smart, adult fare. How, no one was going to see these movies and studios were going to stop making them. well, I guess George Clooney didn't get the memo, because The Ides Of March is a smart, adult film - and a really good one at that!
Read MoreT.J. and his dad have recently suffered a tragic loss. Then one day Hesher comes into their lives. Actually, he does more than come in to their lives. He literally moves in - without asking.
Hesher is a loner with long hair, who lives in his van, listens to heavy metal, smokes cigarettes and pot, likes to set things on fire has a tattoo on his back of a hand giving the finger and one on his chest of a stick man blowing his brains out.
"Hesher is a "feel good" movie that doesn't want to be a "feel good" movie - and that's what makes it so good. It makes the drama, the pain and the laughter genuine and ergo our reactions to it all.
Read MoreThe movie takes place in 1972-73 during the height of the Watergate scandal and the collapse of the Nixon presidency. Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams play two high school girls who become unwittingly involved in the Watergate scandal when they witness G. Gordon Liddy in the hotel during the bugging. They also get separated from their class during a tour of the White House and run into President Nixon himself (played by under-appreciated character actor Dan Hedaya).
Read MoreTimofey, a worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium to sell on Moscow's black market. He meets a bumbling criminal with problems of his own who tries to help him in order to help himself. Welcome to PU-239.
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