remembering the films that the audience forgot
“I didn’t read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I’m older. I read them all.”
— Steven Spielberg
Runaway Train is one-third prison escape movie and two-thirds runaway train movie.
After busting out of an Alaskan maximum-security prison, manny (Jon Voight) and buck (Eric Roberts) cross a frozen wasteland and hop on a train. But, when the engineer has a heart attack the train becomes a…… RUNAWAY TRAIN!
Read MoreIn 2007 the Coen brothers gave us No Country For Old Men which was a masterpiece. Then in 2008 they gave us Burn After Reading which was kind of fun and entertaining, but ultimately disappointing and unsuccessful as a complete film. In 2009 they gave us A Serious Man and wth it the Coen brothers were back on track.
Read MoreRyan Gosling plays a nameless Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver for hire. He’s a man without a past (at least not a past that we’re ever told about). He’s quiet and a loner. and then he meets his neighbour and her son. A bond begins to grow and when her husband gets out of jail and an event occurs that could threaten them, the driver must take matters into his own hands to protect them.
Read MoreDries is a famous writer. One day three losers ring his buzzer and ask him to be the drummer in their band. Sounds like that could be the start of a funny, family-friendly rock and roll movie right? Well, IT ISN'T! It’s the start of the flemish film, Ex Drummer.
Read MoreBack in the latter half of the aughts - following the box office failure of a few films - all the talk was about the death of smart, adult fare. How, no one was going to see these movies and studios were going to stop making them. well, I guess George Clooney didn't get the memo, because The Ides Of March is a smart, adult film - and a really good one at that!
Read MoreThis was a film I watched back over a decade ago and the only reason I watched it was because of the director. This was a film I watched back over a decade ago and the only reason I watched it was because of the director. During a typical movie-channels roaming session I came across the film and while the title somewhat rang a bell, it was once I saw, “Directed By Bruce McDonald” that I knew this was going to be my evening viewing.
While the name probably doesn’t mean much to most film goers, Canadian director Bruce McDonald is the film-maker behind a good little film called Roadkill and the director of the 1996 film, Hard Core Logo - which, along with This Is Spinal Tap, is the best fake rockumentary I have ever seen... anyway, back to The Tracy Fragments...
Read MoreThe Secret Life Of Words is about Hannah, a hearing impaired factory worker (Sarah Polley) who is forced to take her first holiday in years and ends up traveling out to an oil rig, where she cares for a man, Josef, suffering from severe burns who is also temporarily blind (Tim Robbins). There are six other people on the rig, which has been shut down due to the accident that led to Josef's injuries.
Read MoreThe film takes place in Buenos Aires in 1999 as retired Argentinian federal justice agent Benjamín Espósito is writing a novel, using an old closed case as the source material. The case happened 25 years ago and it’s one that he has never been able to forget. The film cuts back and forth between present day (1999) and the mid-70s as events unfolded.
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