Posts Tagged ‘Christopher Walken’
What We’re Watching – 12/14/11
Last Man Standing Much of my adolescent movie-watching years were spent during Bruce Willis’s tough guy box office reign. Films like Die Hard, The Last Boy Scout, and even the rather disappointing Striking Distance were top priority for my film watching time. When the film…
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An Appreciation – Annie Hall
Woody Allen begins his film Annie Hall (1977) with a monologue in which he addresses the audience directly. Within this speech, he describes a joke that he first attributes to Groucho Marx, saying that he would never want to be a part of a club…
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Film Review – Kill the Irishman
The makers of Kill the Irishman, which opens in Seattle today, must think you will watch any piece of crap if it is about the mob. They have to believe that the very fact that the film is about a bunch of people trying to…
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The Tomb of Terror: The Sentinel (1977)
The tomb of terror is a new column. It will replace my previous teeny tiny Tweet-Size Horror reviews with a more in-depth discussion of a horror film each week. – John Every Saturday night The Tomb of Terror opens, unleashing reviews of the obscure and…
READ MOREAn Appreciation – Pulp Fiction
To watch Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994) is to experience American filmmaking at its very best. Here is a film that broke through boundaries, that did not adhere to the rules of traditional storytelling, that decided to create something new and innovative. The early to…
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