I do love this movie!
As you may have noticed, I am very into quirky unusual non-blockbuster films. This is definitely one I enjoyed a lot, Elisabeth Shue and Woody Harrelson are outrageously wicked and very sexy. Also has... View MoreAs you may have noticed, I am very into quirky unusual non-blockbuster films. This is definitely one I enjoyed a lot, Elisabeth Shue and Woody Harrelson are outrageously wicked and very sexy. Also has Michael Rappaport, Gina Gershon and Chloë Sevigny.
Palmetto (1998) — The Movie Database (TMDb)
A recently released ex-con gets involved in a fake kidnapping scheme that turns very real.
Great flick! The girl on girl aspect is actually pretty hot stuff, doesn't give you the lez-fem vibe at all.
Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon were perfectly cast as was Joe Pantoliano. Really worth a w... View MoreGreat flick! The girl on girl aspect is actually pretty hot stuff, doesn't give you the lez-fem vibe at all.
Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon were perfectly cast as was Joe Pantoliano. Really worth a watch. Another obscure film you would ha ve to make an effort to find.
Bound (1996) — The Movie Database (TMDb)
Corky, a tough female ex con and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on Violet's crooked gangster affiliated boyfriend Caesar.
Very strange story with unusual characters and a great cast. I really like this movie but it's hard to find.
Billy Zane, Gina Gershon, Sheryll Lee, Rue McClanahan, Seymour Cassel, Will Patton.
"Marty La... View MoreVery strange story with unusual characters and a great cast. I really like this movie but it's hard to find.
Billy Zane, Gina Gershon, Sheryll Lee, Rue McClanahan, Seymour Cassel, Will Patton.
"Marty Lakewood (Zane) is a reporter forced to leave Chicago and his family because he had uncovered too much police corruption. He returns to his small home town on the California coast to his ailing mother (McCLanahan) and prostitute sister (Gershon), with whom he had an incestuous affair. Being short of money, he seduces a woman cop (Lee) in order to sell her house.
This World, Then the Fireworks (1997) — The Movie Database (TMDb)
Marty Lakewood is a reporter forced to leave Chicago and his family because he had uncovered too much police corruption. He returns to his small home town on the California coast to his ailing mother
EXCELLENT! Classic "old school" horror, very well done, very cool story.
This is such a cool flick!
"Director Jim Jarmusch followed up his brilliant breakout film Stranger Than Paradise with another, equally beloved portrait of loners and misfits in the American landscape.... View MoreThis is such a cool flick!
"Director Jim Jarmusch followed up his brilliant breakout film Stranger Than Paradise with another, equally beloved portrait of loners and misfits in the American landscape. When fate brings together three hapless men — an unemployed disc jockey (Tom Waits), a small-time pimp (John Lurie), and a strong-willed Italian tourist (Roberto Benigni) — in a Louisiana prison, a singular adventure ensues. Described by Jarmusch as a “neo-Beat noir comedy,” Down by Law is part nightmare and part fairy tale, featuring sterling performances and crisp black-and-white cinematography by the esteemed Robby Müller."
What's there to say .. its Bukowski ..
Why Ten Years Later, Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Birth’ Is Still a Masterpiece https://www.indiewire.com/2014/03/why-ten-years-later-jonathan-glazers-birth-is-still-a-masterpiece-192930/
This is a strange dram... View MoreWhy Ten Years Later, Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Birth’ Is Still a Masterpiece https://www.indiewire.com/2014/03/why-ten-years-later-jonathan-glazers-birth-is-still-a-masterpiece-192930/
This is a strange drama about a woman about to be married when a 10 year old boy named Sean shows up at her door claiming he is the reincarnation of her 10 years dead husband named Sean. He knows things no one else could know about them. Could this be her husband reborn?
"... research concludes that this movie was based partly on John F. Kennedy's book "Thirteen Days" about the Cuban Missile Crisis. If you remember this name somehow, it's probably due to the book's re... View More"... research concludes that this movie was based partly on John F. Kennedy's book "Thirteen Days" about the Cuban Missile Crisis. If you remember this name somehow, it's probably due to the book's remake into a movie in 2000 (premiered in 1999) with the same title by director Roger Donaldson, with Kevin Costner in a co-starring role. The name is a reference to a book entitled "The Guns of August," a book about the Great War (a.k.a. WWI) addressing problems of the combination of the "real politik" philosophical paradigm, the German words for realism--a study of politics from the linking of the world through self-interest and armed conflict--with the virtue of the paradigm of idealism. Since the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in October, the movie's name, "The Missiles of October," is a comment on the former to denote the potential seriousness of the incidents in this crisis which were mainly in the drama of JFK's decisions to avert nuclear war against the communistic U.S.S.R. The movie has an exceptional cast, and a large one, with actors with long and noticeable careers in cinema long before 1973, even in the days of black-and-white. Otherwise, Soviet Premier Khrushchev is played by Howard DaSilva, who had memorably co-starred in the film version of the stage musical "1776" playing Ben Franklin, the delegate and inventor; in Joseph Losey's film "M"; and, in "The Great Gatsby" with Robert Redford. Also, John Kennedy's brother Robert is played by Martin Sheen, and he had went on to star in "Apocalypse Now" and several other films. The thirteen days of the Cuban Missile Crisis has since become a subject of study, and this film should be recommended to anyone studying this moment of history, because it is a very literary translation, playing out with the drama being solely located in the scripts themselves: both the screenplay script and the actual international relations scripts from which this movie seems to borrow so much. In comparison between this 1974 television movie to the 2000 film version, the t.v. movie is very talky, but still manages quite well to pull off the drama which is mostly in the script. The film version has the same dramatic themes obviously, but they are much more well-funded with expensive shots of military crafts both air and sea, an even larger cast, and never-before-seen footage of real nuclear explosions, this time in beautifully full color film rather than the black-and-white stock for the videotaped t.v. movie. The theatrical film version lacks the character of the Soviet Premier, and so it seems much less "talky" than the t.v. version. The t.v. version had already made JFK as the central figure only to tell the story in dramatic sequence rather than in defense of him since it is based on JFK's book, so his characterization is like a lion, as this method is the best way to tell the story that is virtually his anyway. If it had not done this with his perspective, it would've decreased the suspense. The television movie deserves a lot of credit for being able to maintain that suspense through the excellent cast and script, much of which is taken from historic speeches. Ultimately, the t.v. movie is about how JFK had de-pressurized the system, where the film version does this much more in such a way as to imprint an image of JFK in memory. In result of the historical events as they are portrayed in the t.v. movie, the JFK character mentions his own lack of air support in the Bay of Pigs invasion. It connects the Soviet Premier's placement of missiles in Cuba as a partial belief of the impotence of a U.S. president that is younger than his first son. Nevertheless, with JFK responding by cutting off Cuba from the Soviets, the Americans and the Soviets begin towing the line, in addition to the nuclear threat, as JFK is not only aware of the nuclear missiles the Soviets have placed in Cuba, but is threatening to attack on the moment those missiles become operational. Finally, after military maneuvers and the sole casualty of an American spy plane, the two leaders finally defuse the situation on agreement, in-turn avoiding nuclear war. Considering history outside of the movie, it could be theorized that the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the subsequent removal of a U.S. base in Turkey, and a decision to remove troops from Vietnam had been reasons for a CIA retaliatory assassination of JFK, as it had commonly done so in covert "black" operations around the world. And so, this movie has significance from a perspective of international relations history, additional to the events of the movie, in that time period where these things happened. The movie seems very close in its historical reference, and the spoken words are from speeches of the political figures represented in this movie."
This is a scary film, done well, not schlock.
"The Skeleton Key is a 2005 American supernatural horror film directed by Iain Softley, written by Ehren Kruger and starring Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, Jo... View MoreThis is a scary film, done well, not schlock.
"The Skeleton Key is a 2005 American supernatural horror film directed by Iain Softley, written by Ehren Kruger and starring Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard and Joy Bryant."
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