Tag: Action

The Longest Day It's that time again. We're rolling back time and heading to the 1963 Academy Awards to take a look at the Best Picture nominations from 1962. The nominees for Bes…

The red carpet has been rolled out. The cameras' bulbs are popping left and right almost blinding everyone lined up to see the stars. Look! It's Old Blues himself Frank Sinatra. Th…

When people talk about great years for movies if they don't mention 1972 run, run fast and far. 1972 was a banner year for cinema. The New Hollywood esthetic was gathering steam. W…

DELIVERANCE With Deliverance we've reached both the end of the Best Picture nominees of the 1973 Academy Awards and our "first year" with Best Picture This. As a reminder, the pre…

Every once in awhile a movie comes along that makes you ask, "How have I never seen this before?" Prime Cut is one of those movies. A Quick Synopsis NIck Devlin (Lee Marvin) is h…

(There’s spoilers ahead but when you’re done you can turn the dial to a time when you hadn’t read this piece. No time loop created.) Indiana Jones fans have been expected to accep…

It would be a mistake not to blame David Zaslav and James Gunn for the colossal failure The Flash has turned out to be. One of the first things Zaslav did upon ascending the Warner…

DEAD FOR A DOLLAR     Walter Hill’s filmography reads like a genre fan’s dream. He was producer on every Alien movie in the franchise. He wrote, as well as directed, The Warriors,…

ALICE We first meet Alice (Keke Palmer) as an enslaved woman on a plantation in the deep South. Director Krystin Ver Linden sets the scene as one would imagine life on a plantatio…

Unforgiven was released in August of 1992. It would go on to win four Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director. In 2004 it was added to The National Film Registry for perman…