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Written by James M. Tate / 6/08/2022 / No comments / action , bill nighy , british , cornetto trilogy , dark comedy , dylan moran , edgar wright , kate ashfield , lucy davis , nick frost , nicola cunningham , penelope wilton , peter serafinowicz , simon pegg , zeroes , zombie

EDGAR WRIGHT & SIMON PEGG'S CREATION 'SHAUN OF THE DEAD'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgljmaqT1JsZzu0ccHdQsnJegSVTgYtLujvvneJUl322Yb70EjFfohcvQ5yNLX-kHa7n44T5tOTA0J_XyHcpDsoXxEHqDvbax7E-ciqbJtZYfMgFe-Fiue-zQkQMyKtnumm30uDX8RjfZI2Ame7rWMjGWWXvL7kLZtJQjtCim7XqEnzR77nZ-OGB1FtkA/s1937/1-1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="928" data-original-width="1937" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgljmaqT1JsZzu0ccHdQsnJegSVTgYtLujvvneJUl322Yb70EjFfohcvQ5yNLX-kHa7n44T5tOTA0J_XyHcpDsoXxEHqDvbax7E-ciqbJtZYfMgFe-Fiue-zQkQMyKtnumm30uDX8RjfZI2Ame7rWMjGWWXvL7kLZtJQjtCim7XqEnzR77nZ-OGB1FtkA/s16000/1-1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nicola Cunningham as Bloody Mary ignites SHAUN OF THE DEAD Year: 2004 Rates: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the first five minutes of SHAUN OF THE DEAD, director Edgar Wright establishes himself as a great filmmaker, and for economical reasons, showcasing a group of five British twenty-somethings... consisting of a couple-in-trouble, the guy's friend that caused the trouble and her own two influential chums... as if they <i>weren't</i> crowded within the same small section of the local hangout pub...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This snappy prologue also works not only for the sake of introductory laughs but establishes the characters in what's a character-driven zombie flick that basically reignited a whole new British New Wave...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, bill nighy, british, cornetto trilogy, dark comedy, dylan moran, edgar wright, kate ashfield, lucy davis, nick frost, nicola cunningham, penelope wilton, peter serafinowicz, simon pegg, zeroes, zombie

EDGAR WRIGHT & SIMON PEGG'S CREATION 'SHAUN OF THE DEAD'

Nicola Cunningham as Bloody Mary ignites SHAUN OF THE DEAD Year: 2004 Rates: ***** In the first five minutes of SHAUN OF THE DEAD, director ...

EDGAR WRIGHT & SIMON PEGG'S BUDDY COP HOMAGE 'HOT FUZZ'

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action, bill nighy, billie whitelaw, buddy, cop, cornetto trilogy, edgar wright, edward woodward, nick frost, rural, satire, simon pegg, stuart wilson, timothy dalton, zeroes

EDGAR WRIGHT & SIMON PEGG'S BUDDY COP HOMAGE 'HOT FUZZ'

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Edgar Wright's HOT FUZZ Year: 2007 Rating: ***** After British director Edgar Wright and his leading man an...

ROBERT DOWNEY JR AND VAL KILMER IN 'KISS KISS BANG BANG'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimOu49r0UOdZgCEFGjRIJntM64veRfkTIJQf1uRuaAZBZ793XCUT_te8VHCkw9f25VGBlC5dInzSV_a1pRupDh62YhIK5SR6jf0MwaI2Xo0xka2AHoiHhqZXlKJitEXSqooxuijAM2eqcQ/s2241/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-08-08%252Bat%252B4.49.27%252BPM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="2241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimOu49r0UOdZgCEFGjRIJntM64veRfkTIJQf1uRuaAZBZ793XCUT_te8VHCkw9f25VGBlC5dInzSV_a1pRupDh62YhIK5SR6jf0MwaI2Xo0xka2AHoiHhqZXlKJitEXSqooxuijAM2eqcQ/s16000/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-08-08%252Bat%252B4.49.27%252BPM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Michelle Monaghan in KISS KISS BANG BANG Year: 2005 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Famous for writing the original LETHAL WEAPON, thus receiving Story Credit for the entire hit-and-miss franchise, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/05/NG.html">Shane Black</a> energetically attempts to trade mainstream action for a Quentin Tarantino style wheelhouse of humorously neurotic criminals who still do violent, desperate, horrible things... </p><p></p><p></p><p>And instead of outright ripping off the PULP FICTION auteur, Black goes back even further, basing the adapted KISS KISS BANG BANG on his love of Pulp Fiction itself: detective novels that inspired everything in the 1940's/1950's Noir lexicon, making this a mile-a-minute <i>Neo</i> Noir that runs itself ragged before the first fifteen minutes...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4b7VDgP6QxgNsZpnJgwMGc7PBRDeOysatmICPZijdBccH14C-ApIPnM7ASYMlawVtrdBAK4H6fHJECM4ltctaqPgKGW8WT834mJbK59TW28jMX4nbV2CEiwh1BbfDDCQGvjo3ifWCyTWs/s2314/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2021-08-08%25252Bat%25252B4.18.09%25252BPM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="978" data-original-width="2314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4b7VDgP6QxgNsZpnJgwMGc7PBRDeOysatmICPZijdBccH14C-ApIPnM7ASYMlawVtrdBAK4H6fHJECM4ltctaqPgKGW8WT834mJbK59TW28jMX4nbV2CEiwh1BbfDDCQGvjo3ifWCyTWs/s16000/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2021-08-08%25252Bat%25252B4.18.09%25252BPM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Downey Jr. in KISS KISS BANG BANG</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>But the perfect lead's cast to deliberately exhaust the audience with self-aware/self-deprecating narration that will often critique the very film you're watching, ala Mel Brooks. And although looking older than he would throughout his IRON MAN tenure... cleaning up from an infamous drug habit... Robert Downey Jr. fits our rambling crook turned would-be actor caught in a murder mystery as convoluted as the kind of novels that influenced it... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In this case, a fictional gumshoe paperback series by a fictional author mentioned repeatedly and extremely important within the story itself, and that both Downey and super-gorgeous dream-girl Michelle Monaghan (and some other strategic characters) grew up reading... </p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix4gjyrcFsmhe0RZgZfVMrJjYA3W_LGFyS0wBPhskww6mJtKO8A-CLF-xHQP_Y8nkOvtFP_bQwliXQdgHfQI4iyHng372oPtmKAfGvXv0FUX0eCxa3QCoLPlNHJBJdkFdQk681YGuPPdwy/s2323/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2021-08-08%25252Bat%25252B4.54.41%25252BPM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="978" data-original-width="2323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix4gjyrcFsmhe0RZgZfVMrJjYA3W_LGFyS0wBPhskww6mJtKO8A-CLF-xHQP_Y8nkOvtFP_bQwliXQdgHfQI4iyHng372oPtmKAfGvXv0FUX0eCxa3QCoLPlNHJBJdkFdQk681YGuPPdwy/s16000/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2021-08-08%25252Bat%25252B4.54.41%25252BPM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Michelle Monaghan and Robert Downey Jr. in KISS KISS BANG BANG</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>So now the Middle-American-born thirty-somethings are stuck in the fast L.A. nightlife, one step away from death while their peripheral romance... the vulnerable sap still in love with the hot chick who was always too good for him... seems straight out of Judd Apatow cinema...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p>But it's Val Kilmer who glues everything together as Gay Perry, a successful and confident homosexual Hollywood-hired detective teaching Downey the ropes... and yet soon enough both get equally tangled in the twisty bedlam (you can almost hear Kilmer channel Danny Glover's famous "I'm too old for this" line)...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl8rrTB0Zn0cDNbt0BKFEeE47WuLdIT4LZOU8PXQZmxJysfF6tsui2SnWTWxvg9vwqU2NOFSUNLKXGdMWt0-0ewQOsWPJPBXEClzTXLdIb-qLVfXz5RZuzud7vg2kS6gYiOopxP65Edq_5/s2206/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2021-08-08%25252Bat%25252B4.22.38%25252BPM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="966" data-original-width="2206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl8rrTB0Zn0cDNbt0BKFEeE47WuLdIT4LZOU8PXQZmxJysfF6tsui2SnWTWxvg9vwqU2NOFSUNLKXGdMWt0-0ewQOsWPJPBXEClzTXLdIb-qLVfXz5RZuzud7vg2kS6gYiOopxP65Edq_5/s16000/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2021-08-08%25252Bat%25252B4.22.38%25252BPM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Val Kilmer in KISS KISS BANG BANG</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>So KISS KISS provides the once hot method-acting madman a surprisingly subdued role he can vanish into without trying too hard (THE DOORS) whilst providing more than just his rugged handsomeness (HEAT) which, at this point, is not only aged but has extra weight added on and, randomly teasing the gay stereotypes, he becomes both a befitting target and experienced muse for Downey's incessant quips...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And there are several action-packed/high-octane moments in Black's hyperactive thriller where he's showcasing something more 1980's mainstream after all... scenes of the polar opposite partners bickering (and even fist-fighting like 48 HRS) is far more entertaining and intriguing than those Tarantino elements that can wind up downright dizzying. But, for what its worth, KISS KISS BANG BANG is pretty much a good kind of dizzy.  </p><p><span></span></p>

ariel winter, buddy, comedy, crime, dark comedy, genre tarantino, gumshoe, michelle monaghan, neo noir, robert downey jr., shane black, shannyn sossamon, stephanie pearson, val kilmer, zeroes

ROBERT DOWNEY JR AND VAL KILMER IN 'KISS KISS BANG BANG'

Michelle Monaghan in KISS KISS BANG BANG Year: 2005 Rating: **** Famous for writing the original LETHAL WEAPON, thus receiving Story Credit ...

TOM HANKS & PAUL NEWMAN IN 'ROAD TO PERDITION' W/ JUDE LAW

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>An actor named Monte billed as Living Corpse with Jude Law in the backdrop of ROAD TO PERDITION Year: 2002</u></td></tr>
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At the very end, the 12-year old son of a hit man, who had spent six weeks on the road with his father, on the run, narrates that he lived a lifetime on that particular journey. And while it feels a lifetime length-wise, hardly anything really happens to make the viewer agree that it was quite a ride... <br>
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But that's not without some anticipation along the way. Like Hanks' Michael Sullivan, a former "enforcer" for Paul Newman's 1930's-era gangster chief John Rooney, having to rob a string of banks and to teach his son to be a getaway driver in the process...<br>

comic book, conrad l. hall, crime, depression-era, gangster, jude law, mobster, neo noir, paul newman, sam mendes, thriller, tom hanks, zeroes

TOM HANKS & PAUL NEWMAN IN 'ROAD TO PERDITION' W/ JUDE LAW

An actor named Monte billed as Living Corpse with Jude Law in the backdrop of ROAD TO PERDITION Year: 2002 At the very end, the 12-year ...

DECADE-SPANNING BLOODY BAGFUL OF ARCHIVE MOVIE REVIEWS

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<u>title: THE BETSY</u>
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<u>year: 1978</u></div>
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<u>cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Lawrence Olivier, Kathleen Beller, Robert Duvall</u></div>
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<u>rating: **1/2</u></div>
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Like something off TV from the late seventies/early eighties night soaps
 ala "Dallas" or "Dynasty" but centering on a car company and with curse
 words and full-frontal nudity (the Kathleen Beller pool scene is quite a
 nice surprise). Tommy Lee Jones is a race car driver/designer hired by a
 rich family to make a new affordable fuel efficient car and gets tangled in 
the web that always permeates the rich and powerful in literature and 
films. This is just fluff, but sometimes entertaining fluff. Robert 
Duvall is surprisingly dull as the somewhat villainous grandson of 
Lawrence Olivier, Olivier who plays wholeheartedly a Henry Ford meets 
Darth Vadar type matriarch of a powerful family that's falling apart at 
the seams.<br />
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<u>title: THE AMAZING HOWARD HUGHES</u><br />
<u>year: 1977
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<u>cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, Lee Purcell</u></div>
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<u>rating: **1/2</u></div>
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Okay so this was edited from a longer version and comes off as a 
greatest hits of Howard Hughes. The story merely glosses through 
different aspects of his life without much detail.  Tommy Lee Jones was 
good... but at the end you're not sure what made him driven, or crazy, 
in the first place.<br />
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<u>title: FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER </u></div>
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<u>year: 1991<br />
cast: Brad Johnson, Willem Defoe <br />
director: John Milius<br />
rating: *</u><br />
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This John Milius Vietnam flick has low-budget written all over it, 
especially when it counts. The talented actors are wasted, and a 
romantic subplot that borders on ludicrious helps waste them, and action
 scenes that leave the viewer wondering not only "What's going on?" but 
"When it gonna end?" Perhaps Milius, who wrote a good percentage of 
"Apocolypse Now", in trying for another Vietnam epic, ends up with a 
"G.I. Joe" meets "Top Gun" in the process. This isn't even corny in an 
endearing sense, it's just plain bad.  </div>
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<u>title: MOTORCYCLE GANG</u><br />
<u>year: 1994</u></div>
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<u>cast: Carla Gugino, Gerald McRaney, Jake Busey, Richard Edson, Julia Mueller </u></div>
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<u>rating: **</u><br />
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This is a bad made-for-TV film that's not so bad, at least the first 
half centering on a family consisting of a father, a mother, and a 
teenager daughter who - during the 1950s - move from Texas to 
California. On the way they run into the element that ruins the flow of 
the movie, and ironically it's the Motorcycle Gang, led by Jake Busey 
who resembles a flaky nineties surfer more than a fifties gang member 
and is about an intimidating as a housefly. This is where the movie hits
 a wall, and explodes. Sadly, once-great John Milius directed this. </div>
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<u>title: CONVOY</u><br />
<u>Year: 1978 </u><br />
<u>cast: Kris Kristofferson, Ali McGraw, Ernest Borgnine </u></div>
<u>
</u>
<div>
<u>rating: *</u></div>
<br />
<div>
</div>
After directing the brilliant anti-war film <i>Cross of Iron</i>, Sam 
Peckinpah went into a dizzy retirement, and here's what he made at his 
dizziest. Truckers on CB radios versus a crooked cop. This should be 
called "BJ and the Billy the Kid", as Kris Kristofferson stars as the 
rebel trucker, and his usually dependable laidback personality is 
boring. Ali McGraw, who was pretty bad in the brilliant Peckinpah film <i>The Getaway</i>,
 is just as bad here, but without a good story to lift her above the 
fray. Burt Young and Ernest Borgnine are lackluster, as is Peckinpah's 
signature style... full of slow-motion action and snappy edits... which 
is hardly visible at all.<br />
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</div>
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<u>title: THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD </u></div>
<div>
<u>year: 1951</u>
<u>cast: James Arness</u>
<u> </u><br />
<u>director: Christian Nyby </u><br />
<u>rating: *1/2</u><br />
<br />
The John Carpenter version has a relatively small number of men trapped 
in an Arctic outpost, and you get to know them all by name, personality,
 share their claustrophobic frenzy and follow their fates accordingly. 
In this movie there's two main characters, a woman who is totally 
misplaced, and about a dozen nameless men who walk from room to room 
talking about a spaceship. John Carpenter told the story in a far better
 fashion... where you can at least follow each character through the 
nightmare as opposed to watching a dated stage play with too many 
characters parading before a stagnate camera. And the famous line, 
"Watch The Skies," is uttered by a lanky scientist. Which makes sense 
since there's nothing to see on the ground. </div>
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<u>title: BLOODY MAMA</u></div>
<div>
<div>
<u>year: 1970</u></div>
<div>
<u>cast: Shelley Winters </u></div>
<div>
<u>rating: *1/2</u></div>
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<div>
How
 can a movie directed by Roger Corman and starring Shelley Winters as a 
bank robber with sons played by Don Stroud, Robert Walden and last but 
not least Robert DeNiro not be great? Judging Corman films can be 
difficult since they don't aspire for much, but this is a lazy exercise 
in a filmmaker pushing an envelope with nothing inside. For DeNiro fans 
there's not much here. His character just stands around with a dumb look
 and every once in a while says something in an over-the-top hillbilly 
accent. Don Stroud is really the focal point as "Herman", the psychotic 
eldest son, but his performance does nothing but grate on the nerves. 
And Shelley Winters collects a paycheck. Corman produced BOXCAR BERTHA 
and CRAZY MAMA are much better.<br />
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<div>
<u>title: STUNTS </u><br />
<u>year: 1977</u></div>
<u>
</u>
<div>
<u>cast: Robert Forster, Fiona Lewis</u><br />
<u>rating: ***1/2 </u><br />
<u><br /></u>
Mark L. Lester rules. STUNTS involves stuntmen getting picked off by a 
mysterious killer. Robert Forster's little brother is one of them, and 
he investigates. Darrell Fetty, Joanna Cassidy, Fiona Lewis, Bruce 
Glover and the late Ray Sharky round out the cast. The acting is 
wonderful and the action is bar none. The stuntmen are killed off like 
campers in a slasher flick, and the tension mounts with precision. 
Lester is a miracle worker. He takes low budget movies and turns them 
into gold. Or at least, silver. And with Robert Forster at the helm: 
this one shines. </div>
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<u>title: THE FURY </u></div>
<div>
<u>year: 1978 </u><br />
<u>cast: Amy Irving, Kirk Douglas </u><br />
<u>rating: **1/2<br />
</u><br />
<div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
This is a pretty bad movie, but oh how it delivers. Not quite sure what it 
wants to be, it aspires for action/adventure, a little horror, 
psychological drama, and of course tons of Hitchcockesque suspense. One 
story centers on Kirk Douglas who is supposedly killed by terrorists in 
front of his son, played by Andrew Stevens, a psychic boy-wonder under 
the care of evil John Cassavetes, wants to use his "powers" for the 
military, or something. And Douglas has to avoid the evil agents and try
 finding his son again. The initial action scenes involving Douglas are 
well-done. But the real star is Amy Irving as a young high school girl 
with even more psychic powers than Stevens, and she ends up at a home 
for "gifted children" that becomes CARRIE on the Hallmark Channel.<br />
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<u>title: GHOST TOWN</u><br />
<div>
<u>year: 2007</u></div>
<div>
<u>cast: Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear</u></div>
<div>
<u>rating: ***1/2</u></div>
<br />
<div>
Written
 and directed by David Koepp, this gives the wry-guy Ricky Gervais a 
decent showcase. Plot centers on a grumpy dentist who goes in for 
surgery and then finds out later he died for six minutes, and as a 
result he can see ghosts... much like that kid in "The Sixth Sense", but
 this ghost-spotter is more annoyed than frightened of the pursuing 
spectors. Greg Kinnear, as the most charming and most persistant of the 
ghosts tailing our anti-charm hero, "hires" him to thwart his wife from 
marrying "the wrong guy". It then turns into a fun love story: although it's much <i>more funny</i> when the good guy is sarcastic and bitter i.e. himself. <br />
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<u>title: TROPIC THUNDER</u><br />
<div>
<u>year: 2008</u></div>
<div>
<u>cast: Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black</u></div>
<div>
<u>rating: *</u></div>
<br />
<div>
"The
 Three Amigos" centers on three dim-bulb actors who go to Mexico 
thinking they're filming a movie and end up in a real situation battling
 bad guys who want to kill them. "Tropic Thunder" centers on three 
dim-bulb actors who think they're filming a movie and end up... doing 
"Three Amigos" all over again, but very badly. This could have been an 
at least halfway decent bad movie if there wasn't the sidestory about 
Ben Stiller's character's fading career, which makes it horrificly 
horribly awful. Ben Stiller goes over the top and isn't funny, Jack 
Black is totally wasted, and Robert Downey Jr. as a pretentious 
Australian actor playing a black army officer is somewhat impressive but
 gets annoying, fast.</div>
</div>

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FORGOTTEN TRIUMPH OF 'RAMBO' W/ BONUS 'RAMBO III' REVIEW

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BLOODY BAGFUL OF MOSTLY UNNECESSARY JOHN CARPENTER FILMS

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kurt Russell surfing L.A. vs a shifty Steve Buscemi Year: 1996</u></td></tr>
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<u>ESCAPE FROM L.A</u>: "I was a Muslim in South Dakota," a beautiful Los 
Angeles prisoner tells Snake Plissken. And that's why she's considered a
 criminal in the new United States, which makes the famously infamous, 
horrendously awful ESCAPE FROM L.A. not altogether dated: released in 1996 
while taking place in a "futuristic" 2013, Hollywood would proudly write
 a line like this today.<br>
  <br>
The set-up has our ESCAPE 
FROM NEW YORK anti-hero Plissken, played by Kurt Russell returning as 
Carpenter's very own Sergio Leone era Clint Eastwood, now delivered in 
chains to the former City of Angels, which has become an island to 
itself after an immense earthquake predicted by a Commander-in-Chief so 
Right Wing he's more of an underline villain... Even compared to prison 
ruler Cuervo Jones, a Playboy Che Guevara type about to... take over the
 world, somehow, with the help of the President's daughter, caught 
awestruck under his revolutionary spell and, once again, Snake has a 
certain amount of digitally run-down time to 
find a particular gadget that, whether in the hands of the equally evil 
Far Left or Far Right leader, wouldn't be a good thing.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>ESCAPE FROM LA Score: *1/2</u></td></tr>
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Stacy Keach is the narrow-eyed Lee Van Cleef, and 
wields an expository cool edge over Cliff Robertson's eventually 
weak-kneed, zealot stooge. And Carpenter brings Plissken through the 
same basic roaming journey template only with horrible results this time
 around...<br>
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First blasting off in a mini submarine underwater to 
reach the island; overall, while the embarrassing special effects and 
forced political undertones hinder what the original's beautifully basic
 Spaghetti Western Science Fiction romp had going for it, there<i> is</i>
 actually enough banal action to keep the viewer, well, kind of 
entertained.<br>
<br>
In place of Ernest Borgnine's resilient guide Cabbie is 
Steve Buscemi, fitting within the retro 
styling during the crest of the Tarantino craze. One scene in 
particular, using some of that revitalized PULP FICTION guitar vibrato 
groove, Snake and hippie-dude Peter Fonda (doing a rambling druggie impersonation of his EASY RIDER co-star Dennis Hopper) actually surf a tsunami, 
which, faker looking than a Frankie and Annette picture, is unbelievable
 to witness, trumping even a scene involving Bruce Campbell as a mutant 
plastic surgeon.  <br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kurt Russell and Peter Fonda in Escape from LA</u></td></tr>
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In
 the form of Harry Dean Stanton's Brain is another ex-partner of Snake: 
Pam Grier plays a former man (with a horrendously dubbed voice), 
resulting in a high-flying finale with more bullets than logic. But the 
worst sequence mirrors in desperation what could be the best part of the
 original: when Snake fought the muscular gladiator in the pivotal cage 
match surrounded by cheering hordes... <br>
<br>
Well this time around, Snake has 
to... get this... shoot hoops in an outdoor basketball court to save his skin... Making him not only an
 iconic criminal but both a champion NBA star and surfer in 
what has to be John Carpenter's worst venture; one that he never 
recovered from. Hell, compared to this, the maligned GHOST OF MARS and VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED is 
THE THING, or... ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. <br>

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ACTION REVIEWS OF 'SUPERMAN RETURNS' AND 'MINORITY REPORT'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 2006 Rating: *1/2</u></td></tr>
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<u>SUPERMAN RETURNS</u>: You've got to give credit to X-MEN director Bryan Singer for, in 2006, trying to make his SUPERMAN RETURNS literally that: returning from the 
1978 original with the same opening credit look and starting after
 the events of SUPERMAN II with Brandon Routh as,
literally, the Christopher Reeve Superman...<br />
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But if there's any one thing Reeve did best in the title role, it was playing 
Clark Kent in an endearing underdog manner: something Routh just can't pull 
off. Instead of being clumsy for the part he seems awkward in the role, and 
while on paper Kevin Spacey's the dream Lex Luther, he seems like he 
doesn't want to be there, and with the same exact world-damning 
land-deal goal as Gene Hackman's Luthor, it makes the arch villain feel 
even more bland, unoriginal, overly familiar and basically a frustrating 
afterthought...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Brandon Routh has CGI strength and nothing more</u></td></tr>
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Meanwhile, an otherwise witty (in Christopher Guest movies) Parker Posey
 is perhaps the weakest moll in film history...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Marsden in Returns</u></td></tr>
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But worse yet is Lois 
Lane... Played by a much too young Kate Bosworth, her character lacks Margot Kidder's edge and experienced charm, 
intrepid screen presence and, in having been in her thirties, and while looking 
older than Reeve, Kidder's Lane really did seem like what she played: a solid
reporter who's been in the game and knows more in the arena of reporting 
and taking risks...<br />
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The latter giving Kent-turned-Superman a reason to 
protect her, constantly, as the audience wants her around too: But the biggest shame here is James Marsden's throwaway role as Lois's 
seemingly too-perfect boyfriend, trying too hard to be "dad" to a 
horrible child actor who's really Kent's Superboy. And come to think of 
it, Marsden, under Singer's direction as Cyclops in X-MEN, would have 
made a much better Superman: Being the right age he seemed more in tune 
with the natural fit Reeve had in the part, and he's great looking, has a
 properly muscular build, and to play the clumsy Kent, he's a good 
actor... How could Singer not know what/who was staring him in the face?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 2002 Rating: *1/2</u></td></tr>
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<u>MINORITY REPORT</u>: Looking as if filmed with a lens splattered with icky green goo, 
MINORITY REPORT takes us into yet another Philip K. Dick futureworld 
where the government is doing what seems is the best for society 
(preventing murder) but is actually... no good at all...<br />
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The entire set-up is preposterous: Like MACBETH had three foreseeing witches 
igniting the plot, here there's a trio of half-naked bald "precogs" (one is Samantha Morton) in a large tub of liquid within the bowels of a formidable police station, 
projecting images of murders that haven't yet happened...<br />
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And Tom Cruise 
arrests these poor semi-guiltys and is, soon enough, like the Film Noir/Wrong 
Man movies that inspired Steven Spielberg to try replicating (pun 
intended) the Neo Noir magic of BLADE RUNNER, is framed for 
almost-murder and chased down like the criminals he used to... chase 
down: But the over abundance of now dated-looking CGI, and the fact no 
characters have any chemistry with each other or the altered-reality 
world in which they reluctantly and awkwardly exist, makes MINORITY 
REPORT a tedious, tiresome waste of noisy bedlam.

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ACTION REVIEWS OF 'SUPERMAN RETURNS' AND 'MINORITY REPORT'

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DOUBLE 'FIRESTARTER' FEATURE W/ ORIGINAL AND 'REKINDLED'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Heather Locklear and Drew Barrymore YEAR: 1984</u></td></tr>
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<u>FIRESTARTER</u>: During what looks like a five-dollar opening credit sequence, the synth score by Tangerine Dream, a hybrid of Pink Floyd and John Carpenter, provides a silk hat on a...<br />
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Well FIRESTARTER isn't exactly (or entirely) a dog: But based on a novel by Stephen King, it can mislead rabid horror fans as a droning Science-Fiction thriller without wraiths or psychos but nefarious government agents with black suits, like HALLOWEEN 3: SEASON OF THE WITCH compared to its famous, popular predecessors involving tangible killer ghost Michael Myers...<br />
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Although, directed by capable b-movie/drive-in staple, Mark L. Lester, it's got a terrific look, produced by movie mogul Dino De Laurentis — plus the cast of otherwise great actors turning in good-enough performances: Particularly young lead, Charlie (short for Charlene), played by the ET-famous Drew Barrymore: She displays the right amount of possessive power and, most important, empathetic vulnerability in a picture that feels like a dark espionage mated with a pulpy and Gothic, coming-of-age melodrama — using random bouts of cringe-worthy dialogue along with a sporadic overdose of technical exposition...<br />
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Things tighten after being captured and separated by her father (played by) David Keith, who has Old Testament powers to make people see what he tells them — the proverbial Pharaoh's staff-into-serpent kinda deal...<br />
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This after Dad and Charlie are on-the-run (which includes well-done flashbacks leading to the present time) during an action-led first act act, befitting Lester's <i>appeal to a primal audience </i>style that made those old "cheap" vehicles so appealing (and would progress the next year with his popular-peak COMMANDO)...<br />
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Then when dad and daughter are both "politely" sequestered inside contrived cozy living/bedrooms (including the usual steel wall behind a draped steel window) inside a rural government compound (which we never get an establishing shot of), it's the chemistry between Barrymore and assassin George C. Scott as Raintree, established earlier as a coldblooded killer and now pretending to be a friendly old orderly named John, that really works. He warms her heart with a hypnotic (for her) and comfortably creepy ruse (for us) in what's overall a <i>pretty good</i> film that doesn't try to be<i> really great</i>, and with just enough of the titular promise of torched/scorched bad guys while the characters, good and bad, develop between scenes that moves the story forward in an economic B-movie that has enough A-value to feel completely legit in the King-adapted galaxy.  <br />
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<u>FIRESTARTER 2: REKINDLED</u>: Better than one would expect from a miniseries of a sequel based upon a semi-famous Stephen King novel adaptation, especially after THE SHINING miniseries, which was the famously opinionated author's attempt to erase Stanley Kubrick's legendary classic off the chalkboard (nice try, Stephen, but Steven Weber's don't know Jack)...<br />
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Same thing happens here as the child version of the second Charlie doesn't follow what happened in the first; that which was more logical and suspenseful...<br />
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For example, Malcolm McDowell takes George C. Scott's role, with half his face burned from what seemed his scorching barnyard death, and instead of the aforementioned deception between the first Raintree and Charlie — in this case, after the father gets shot on the street, McDowell's simply walks up and grabs her hand, replacing daddy — and she doesn't freak out?! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>3/4ths of the DVD double feature</u></td></tr>
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But this is really about the grownup twenty-something Charlie whose powers are sought to be REKINDLED by everyone but herself. The gorgeous (and yes, talented) former MIGHTY DUCKS child starlet Marguerite Moreau (coached by Emilio Estevez, first son of Martin Sheen, Barrymore's captor in the original) turns in a smooth performance despite way too many uneven, confusing, off-color flashbacks. And it's part romantic-soap as she's paired with a well-written but mediocre-acted standard handsome (and intentionally oblivious) employee of the agency tracking her down... <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>One of those devilish Stephen King adapted touches</u></td></tr>
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Whether taking place in a constructed small town main street, or the city that it purposefully mirrors (for the final battle), there's simply not enough fire... or victims of the flames... to go around...<br />
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With sexy dark-grunge Charlie's powers more spoken and/or anticipated, the bedlam's handed to a group of boys who share her formidable gift, mentored by Raintree, yet are pretty weak in the antagonist department. Enough elements work, though, like an important cameo by Dennis Hopper (as a survivor of the initial test that screwed-up Charlie's parents); an effective hybrid of body count terror (still not horror); and with a more backseat yet still palpable element of sci-fi, this REKINDLED miniseries (with ten minutes trimmed for a movie-length DVD) is a ride worth burning through. At least once.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Cult Film Freak amigo Antonio "Huggy Bear" Fargas in a thrifty but important cameo as a cab driver</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Raintree warming up to our little Firestarter Drew Barrymore, which is the epicenter of the movie</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>When she was the cutest thing in the world, Heather Locklear meets future husband David Keith during THE Gov't test</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Drew Barrymore David Keith Firestarter Drew Barrymore David Keith Drew Barrymore Firestarter</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>George C. Scott's assassin's assasin Raintree takes aim at an unsuccessfully hidden away...</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Firestarter and father, who hid in a property that they own... Not very smart...</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>A terrific unfolding by director Mark L. Lester Firestarter as Agents appear out of trees... It's the evil E.T.</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>In The Shining, that power was compared to burning toast, so there it is, another King connection</u></td></tr>
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david keith, dennis hopper, drew barrymore, horror, malcolm mcdowell, mark l. lester, miniseries, science-fiction, sequel, tangerine dream, TV, zeroes

DOUBLE 'FIRESTARTER' FEATURE W/ ORIGINAL AND 'REKINDLED'

Heather Locklear and Drew Barrymore YEAR: 1984 FIRESTARTER : During what looks like a five-dollar opening credit sequence, the synth s...

Written by James M. Tate / 8/29/2017 / No comments / andrew dice clay , burt reynolds , cindy williams , comedy , howard stern , john byner , jonathan brandis , nineties , randy quaid , retrospective , rodney dangerfield , sidney j. furie , sport , vinessa shaw , zeroes

LAST STRETCH AND DECLINE OF RODNEY DANGERFIELD CINEMA

<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When he turned fifty, the age most comic-actors would be considered has-beens, he was cast in a now classic golf comedy, CADDYSHACK, that was originally written about the caddies, like ANIMAL HOUSE (with the same co-writers, SHACK director Harold Ramis and Doug Kenney) centered on the Delta fraternity house. It's impossible to imagine the evil Dean Wormer (John Vernon) and the hippie professor (Donald Sutherland) as the focal points, leaving all but one rebellious frat boy in the buried lead role, like Michael O'Keefe's Danny Noonan in CADDYSHACK... But sometimes the side-characters shine brighter than the leads, or at least the most memorable, iconic...</span><br>

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LAST STRETCH AND DECLINE OF RODNEY DANGERFIELD CINEMA

Twelve Year Decline of Rodney Dangerfield Movies from 1992 to 2004 Rodney Dangerfield was one of the most beloved comedic actors of all ...

PAUL SCHRADER DIRECTS WILLEM DAFOE IN LIGHT SLEEPER

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Susan Sarrandon and William Defore YEAR: 1992</u></td></tr>
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I feel my life turning... All it needed was a direction</blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well Paul Schrader gave Willem Dafoe plenty of direction, having worked with him a handful of times, and he preferred the otherwise intense actor, who other directors would use as an angry, vicious or intense type of fella, to be desperate, laidback, vulnerable and sympathetic: In AUTO FOCUS, the true crime story of HOGAN'S HERO actor Bob Crane's sexual journey into out-of-control oblivion with the help of his go-to guy, was played by Dafoe, who might as well have been a controlled, even-keeled drug dealer like he is, literally, in LIGHT SLEEPER, since Crane, played by Greg Kinnear, got high on videotaping his sexcapades using, at that time, high-end recording equipment, thus depending on real life best friend and future number one murder suspect John Carpenter (not the HALLOWEEN director): both films couldn't be more different, sharing only Schrader and Defoe in common: two kings of edgy cinema made for each other...</span><br>

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PAUL SCHRADER DIRECTS WILLEM DAFOE IN <b>LIGHT SLEEPER</b>

PAUL SCHRADER DIRECTS WILLEM DAFOE IN LIGHT SLEEPER

Susan Sarrandon and William Defore YEAR: 1992 I feel my life turning... All it needed was a direction Well Paul Schrader gave Willem D...

JACK NICHOLSON & MORGAN FREEMAN IN THE BUCKET LIST

comedy, disease, drama, jack nicholson, morgan freeman, rob reiner, zeroes

JACK NICHOLSON & MORGAN FREEMAN IN <b>THE BUCKET LIST</b><br />

JACK NICHOLSON & MORGAN FREEMAN IN THE BUCKET LIST

Jack and Morgan's perspective of an unreachable mountain YEAR: 2008 Having ventured back into the classic cinema of Jack Nicholson t...

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