Posts Tagged ‘Walter Hill’
Film Review – Crime 101
Time is one of the major factors running all throughout Crime 101 (2026). Whether it involves characters racing against time to pull off a major heist, regretting all the time that has passed them with little to show for it, or making the most of the time…
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Episode 73 – In the Heights
For this episode of the podcast, we review the film In the Heights, based on the Broadway musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda. We also read responses by our listeners about their favorite movie musicals. At the end of the show, we discuss the 1984 cult film,…
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Film Review – Drug War
Some of my favorite movies are the ones that start with the story already in progress. Michael Mann’s 2006 thriller Miami Vice is one of the first that comes to mind. The movie opens as agents Crockett and Tubbs are already deep in the middle…
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Film Review – Bullet To The Head
I keep thinking to myself that Sylvester Stallone is an underrated actor. Remember, he was nominated for an acting Oscar—granted, it was 1977 and he was still up-and-coming when he played the title role in Rocky. The point still stands. If Stallone is inspired, he…
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Episode 191 – Bruce Willis
In honor of the release of Looper, Spencer and Greg discuss Bruce Willis.
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Film Review – Prometheus
Early twentieth-century writer of the macabre H.P. Lovecraft once wrote: “Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute…
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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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The Tomb of Terror: Messiah of Evil (1973)
Every Saturday night The Tomb of Terror opens, unleashing reviews of the obscure and the classic in horror cinema. Husband and wife writer/producer/director team Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz have had a storied career in Hollywood. Film school friends of George Lucas (Star Wars), they…
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