Posts Tagged ‘Rutger Hauer’
Episode 15 – The Lion King
On this podcast episode, we review the photo-realistic remake of the Disney classic, The Lion King. Keith gives us all the details about his 2019 San Diego Comic-Con experience, we say farewell to the great Rutger Hauer, and at the end of the show, for…
READ MOREFilm review – The Sisters Brothers
How far would you go to protect your brother? Risk life and limb, you say? What if said brother were a perpetual troublemaker with a fondness for (constant) booze and a dangerous temper? To what lengths do you go? The Sisters Brothers examines this quandary…
READ MOREAn Appreciation – Blade Runner: The Final Cut
My admiration for Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) did not come immediately. It came about slowly, in bits and pieces, over a long stretch of time. When I first saw it, I knew that it was important, but also felt there was something holding me…
READ MOREAn Appreciation – Blade Runner
An Introduction to Dreaming About Sheep I was 11 years old when I saw a trailer for Blade Runner. Sitting in the living of our family home, watching something on the now defunct Seattle TV station, KSTW channel 11, when the trailer came on during…
READ MOREEpisode 189 – Future Cops
In honor of the release of Dredd 3D, Spencer and Greg discuss films about cops in the future. Additional films suggested: Mad Max, The Caves of Steel, I Robot, 1984, A Scanner Darkly, Bronx Executioner, Hands of Steel, Assassin, Future Force, Soylent Green, Outland, Fahrenheit…
READ MORESchlock Shelf – Hobo With a Shotgun
Hobo With a Shotgun is a grindhouse film about a transient man (played by Rutger Hauer) who rolls into a town under the control of Drake—a really bad guy. Rutger blasts his way through the town, despite the townspeople having turned on him. With the…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Rite
While I don’t believe that The Rite (2011) will go down as one of the great horror films like, say, The Exorcist (1973), it does have a surprisingly effective way of telling its story of a skeptical young priest and the experienced exorcist knowing that…
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