When architect Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) and a co-worker discuss crime rates in 1974 New York, the co-worker suggests putting the underprivileged into concentration camps so that decent people can be safe. Kersey feels that the underprivileged deserve a break and is called a “bleeding heart.” Kersey’s feelings take anContinue Reading
Watching Tupac Shakur, the gangsta rapper who was murdered in 1996, play an addict who decides its time to quit drugs is kind of unsettling. Why? Because Shakur gives one hell of a performance as the addict in question. It makes one wish Shakur would have stayed away from theContinue Reading
In The Professional, Jean Reno plays Leon, a professional hitman, or “cleaner,” who takes in his 12-year-old next door neighbor and teaches her his trade. Mathilda (Natalie Portman) has narrowly escaped getting murdered — unlike the rest of her family — by corrupt DEA agent Stansfield, played with violent gleeContinue Reading
Los Angeles crime boss Mickey Cohen has been arrested and is serving a ten year sentence. A vacancy at the organized crime throne makes it open season for out-of-town thugs to try to move in and assume control. The L.A. police force, headed by Dudley Smith (James Cromwell), resort toContinue Reading
The tagline for this film is, “They’re dying to play with you.” I assume that’s supposed to mean the characters in the film, who are all played by attractive people. It also includes the screenwriter and director, who prove that this film can also play with your expectations. Wild ThingsContinue Reading
Bobby Cooper (Sean Penn) is not having a good day. He’s on his way to pay off some bookie-type thugs when his classic Ford Mustang blows a radiator hose and traps him in the small town of Superior, Arizona. He manages to steer the car to a mechanic (Billy BobContinue Reading
Ever since he wowed the world with Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino’s kept a rather low profile. Well, as a director anyway. Aside from some attempts at acting (From Dusk ’til Dawn, Destiny Turns on the Radio) and a rumored turn at the helm of The X-Files that never turned out, we haven’t seenContinue Reading