Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna Director: Terence Young After an accident robs her of her sight, Susy (Hepburn) is adapting to life when her husband has to go away and leave her on her own. When three thieves (Arkin, Crenna) think that she has a doll in her possession full of heroin, they… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Wait Til Dark (1967)
Starring: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Allen, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood, Tobey Maguire, Adam Hann-Byrd Director: Ang Lee A portrait of suburban life in the 70's, two families fates intertwine on the eve of a huge ice storm in Connecticut. Infidelity, casual sex, and drugs are all explored, as two middle class neighboring couples and… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: The Ice Storm (1997)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Sarah Wright, Domhnall Gleeson, Caleb Landry Jones Director: Doug Liman Barry Seal (Cruise) was a TWA pilot in the 1980's, who flew missions for the CIA into South America, and became involved in drug smuggling for the Medellin Cartel. He played a dangerous game of playing to two sides off each other… Continue reading American Made (2017)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, Adrian Grenier, Johnathan Schaech Director: Steven C Miller This is a random film. Personally, I'll watch anything that Nicolas Cage stars in. He's either absolutely brilliant or bat shit crazy (he's the second one in this film). That's why we're talking about this film. Here he's in fine form as… Continue reading Southern Fury (aka Arsenal) (2017)
Starring: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly Director: Robert Clouse The mother of all martial arts movies, this one was the first that broke into the mainstream for Bruce Lee, and shows of his incredible charisma and energy. Lee is tasked with entering a tournament on a mysterious bad guy's island in an effort to… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Enter The Dragon (1973)
by Hermione FlaviaÂ
I’m not always a huge fan of documentaries. I like the cinematic imagery of the bigger budget films, I’m shallow like that. But I do love the kind of insight you get into other places and lives, bigger truths, that you sometimes get in a decent documentary, as long as they’re not preaching at you. (I’m shallow like that too) What I love about Uncertain is that although it’s a documentary, it has beautiful imagery, it’s a very cinematic film. It’s very accessible and very entertaining.
Uncertain is a film about a tiny place, a small town on the border of Texas and Louisiana, with a population of only 94 people. It’s a place that often doesn’t appear on maps, and that people tend to only stumble across if they’re lost, or if they’re trying to hide or run from something. It explores the lives and stories…
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Starring: Bryan Cranston, John Leguizamo, Diane Kruger, Benjamin Bratt Director: Brad Furman Bryan Cranston in a film about drug dealing and money laundering... Well, you could certainly do a lot worse. It's lovely to see Cranston's career doing so well, he's a varied actor, and is able to show a dangerous and a tender side… Continue reading The Infiltrator (2016)
Starring: Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham, William Burroughs Director: Gus Van Sant They're very healthy looking for a drug addicted couple, aren't they? Matt Dillon plays Bob, the head of a dysfunctional group who consider themselves family. His wife (Lynch) and another couple are along for the ride, whilst Bob makes decisions about who… Continue reading 105 Must Watch Films: Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Starring: Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Ellen Burstyn Director: Darren Aronofsky Dynamic, original, violent and bleak. This film tells the story of four people whose lives are intertwined, who all end up addicted to the drugs that they thought would change their lives for the better. Instead, they are all destroyed. Harry Goldfarb (Leto),… Continue reading 105 Must Watch Films: Requiem For A Dream (2000)
Starring: Ron O'Neal, Carl Lee, Sheila Frazier Director: Gordon Parks Jr Blaxploitation films were big in the 70's, and none more so than this classic example. Priest is a smooth, well dressed cocaine dealer who realises that there's no future for him in his current life and plans one last score to end them all, so… Continue reading 105 Must Watch Films: Superfly (1972)
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