There’s a scene in Casino that sums up exactly what it was like 50 years ago in Las Vegas back when the Italian Mafia ruled the scene. Sam “Ace” Rothstein (Robert DeNiro) is meeting with a county commissioner, Pat Webb (L.Q Jones). Ace wears flashy, loud suits and clothing while Webb is a good oleContinue reading “‘Casino’ Deals Gangsters, Cowboys And Good Ole Boys For A Mafia Jackpot”
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Albert Brooks Delves Further Into His ‘Life’ In HBO Documentary
Albert Books is an acquired taste of comedy. He’s the type of actor where many people have probably heard his voice on The Simpsons and Finding Nemo,but probably won’t want to sit through one of his movies for 10 minutes. He’s the subject of a documentary on HBO Albert Brooks: Defending My Life. I rememberContinue reading “Albert Brooks Delves Further Into His ‘Life’ In HBO Documentary”
‘Quiz Lady’ Scores
Sandra Oh has been acting for decades and she’s mostly been considered a drama actress. This is thanks to roles on Grey’s Anatomy and Killing Eve where she was nominated for Primetime Emmys numerous times. But she started out in comedies before she was a household name in the 1997 movie Bean and the HBOContinue reading “‘Quiz Lady’ Scores”
‘Dead Reckoning’ Shows Mission: Impossible Franchise Still Much Alive
The Mission: Impossible franchise seemed to running on empty following the lackluster and very confusing third movie, which was the first movie J.J. Abrams directed. In my opinion, this is the weakest mostly because I feel it was made as a conclusion rather than just a regular entry. Also, casting Philip Seymour Hoffman as theContinue reading “‘Dead Reckoning’ Shows Mission: Impossible Franchise Still Much Alive”
‘Addams Family Values’ Is A Delightful Treat For Thanksgiving Leftovers
Sometimes sequels are better made but don’t get the recogntion they deserve until many years later. A movie like Addams Family Values is a wonderful improvement over the original The Addams Family movie mainly because it has a darker sense of humor in how it handles the Addams in a modern-day world where they areContinue reading “‘Addams Family Values’ Is A Delightful Treat For Thanksgiving Leftovers”
‘Chopping Mall’ Makes A Killing For Black Friday
Even though the movie had already been shown in test markets by the time Short Circuit hit theaters in the spring of 1986, Chopping Mall is the answer to what would happen if they took the Slasher/Dead Teenagers genres and mashed them up with murdering robots. What if Johnny Five blew people’s heads off asContinue reading “‘Chopping Mall’ Makes A Killing For Black Friday”
‘Blue Beetle’ The Diamond In The Rough Of The Failed DCEU
Blue Beetle seems to be the DCEU answer to something like Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings or the first Ant-Man. Take a comic book character that doesn’t get a lot of attention and churn out a nice superhero movie that is fun and leaves you entertained. It’s nowhere near the level ofContinue reading “‘Blue Beetle’ The Diamond In The Rough Of The Failed DCEU”
‘Barbie’ Feels Too Packaged
When I first heard they were making a movie based on Barbie, I felt it would bomb. Then, I heard that Greta Gerwig was directing co-writing along with her partner (and savior from a lifetime of character actor jobs as the best friend of the protagonist in big-budget movies) Noah Baumbach. Gerwig has never beenContinue reading “‘Barbie’ Feels Too Packaged”
‘Kalifornia’ Is A Killer
A movie like Kalifornia pretty much breaks people down in two categories. On one side, you have the people who have a moral and ethical code that prevents them from doing things that might harm people. Then, you have people who will just do something no matter who it harms. The protagonist, Brian Kessler (DavidContinue reading “‘Kalifornia’ Is A Killer”
Don’t Bother With ‘About My Father’
In 1988, Robert DeNiro did his first real comedy Midnight Run. There was something funny about the way he threatened on a phone to brutally murder Charles Grodin’s character who was standing shocked right next to him and then just give a dismissive shake of the head. It was all in the delivery. DeNiro andContinue reading “Don’t Bother With ‘About My Father’”
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