Living for the Cinema

Remember when Nicholas Cage was known as Nicolas Coppola?  Remember when the mall was THE place to hang out?  Remember when half the girls in your high school class were trying to look like Pat Benatar?  Remember when Sean Penn was funny?? :o Well if you don’t remember any of those things, here is an iconic time capsule movie to remind of those and many other things from forty years ago.  Yes this high school comedy came out forty years ago and it was not only the directorial debut for Amy Heckerling who would go on to direct Clueless but it was also the screenwriting debut of Cameron Crowe who would go on to write and direct Jerry Maguire.  And it has a STACKED cast of future top talent including Penn, Cage, Forest Whitaker, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Judge Reinhold among several others.  It’s time to go back to Ridgemont and find out if playing Led Zeppelin IV on the first date REALLY works….

Host: Geoff Gershon
 
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The Predator has returned!  Well an earlier version of the fierce hunter from another planet…..and THIS time, he has visited America’s Great Plains more than 300 years ago.  So is this a prequel to the 1987 sci-fi action thriller starring Arnold Schwarzenegger?  Well sort of....

This time, the story focuses on Naru (Amber Midthunder), a young member of the Comanche Nation who fancies herself a hunter even though she is expected to work more as a gatherer or healer.  So she’s off on the hunt to prove herself….and guess who she runs into??  Eventually, more of her fellow tribesman get involved along with a group of French fur trappers.....and bloodshed ensues.  Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane) directed this “Hulu Original” and let’s see how it compares to the original. 

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For the next couple of weeks, we will be taking a break to get our proverbial batteries recharged - we'll be ok and be back to releasing new episodes before the end of the month! ;)  

In the meantime, enjoy this special episode going back through our catalog of more than 120 episodes to rank THE Best Needle-Drops so far – for this episode, we are ranking the BEST FILM SCORES so far.....

Host: Geoff Gershon
 
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Links to Episodes Referenced:

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/11057142-heat-1995

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/10734333-milk-2008-w-the-times-of-harvey-milk-1984

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/10099138-glory-1989

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/10185558-the-batman-2022-living-for-the-batman-series

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/9905666-annihilation-2018

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/10456238-the-untouchables-1987

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/9474816-jfk-1991

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/8666399-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-1981

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/8966165-north-by-northwest-1959

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/9866139-crimson-tide-1995

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/10838831-john-carpenter-s-the-thing-1982

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/10266156-basic-instinct-1992

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/10078157-batman-begins-2005-living-for-the-batman-series

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/9077780-thelma-louise-1991

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For the next couple of weeks, we will be taking a break to get our proverbial batteries recharged - we'll be back to releasing new episodes before the end of the month!  

In the meantime, enjoy this special episode going back through our catalog of more than 120 episodes to rank THE Best Needle-Drops so far – there will be two separate episodes for SONGS and MUSICAL SCORES.  This one is for the songs - enjoy!

Host: Geoff Gershon
 
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Links to Episodes Referenced:

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/11039604-the-spy-who-loved-me-1977

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/10655810-desperado-1995

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/10562626-slap-shot-1977

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/10033633-music-and-lyrics-2007

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/9990547-judas-and-the-black-messiah-2021

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/9795606-inside-man-2006-re-release

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/9151428-warrior-2011

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/9133392-running-scared-1986

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/8621853-jungle-fever-1991

https://livingforthecinema.buzzsprout.com/1764842/8683658-saturday-night-fever-1977

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Brad Pitt stars in this fast-paced (literally) action comedy from director David Leitch who previously helmed Deadpool 2 and Atomic Blonde.  It almost entirely takes place on a high speed train barreling through Japan which has some antagonistic passengers to say the least.  Among them are a group of assassins who each seem to have different missions but involving the same set of people, mainly a local crime organization lead by the feared gangster White Death.  There’s also a valuable suitcase onboard filled with money that every one seems to want and will kill for…..and chaos ensues!  This film also co-stars Bryan Tyee Henry, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Joey King, Hiroyuki Sanada, and a slew of surprise cameos….if you have haven’t already trailers mind you. 😉 

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“Don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner….” – Neil McCauley, 1995

And that’s the apparent thesis for one of the most beloved films of the past thirty years spoken by living legend Robert DeNiro sitting across from fellow living legend Al Pacino.  Or is it really the main theme of the movie?  Maybe it’s just something cool-sounding that a tough guy says but doesn’t really follow through on….director Michael Mann examines that very question among so many others during this almost three hour crime epic focusing on the brewing conflict between two self-obsessed master tacticians on both sides of the law…and the women who love them….along with every one else whose lives they impact.  This STACKED cast also includes Val Kilmer, Diana Venora, Amy Brenneman, Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, Wes Studi, Dennis Haysbert, Mykelti Williamson, Danny Trejo, and Ted Levine among SO many others.  Let’s find out if the action IS really the juice…..

WARNING: ADULT LANGUAGE THROUGHOUT MOVIE CLIPS

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45 years ago during the summer of Star Wars and Smokey & the Bandit….there was only one action hero who dared to step into the ring and his name was Moore…Sir Roger Moore. 😊 By this point, Moore had played the character of James Bond in two previous entries in this franchise that made some money and had their fans but were still dwarfed by the popularity of the previous films starring Sean Connery – that all changed with this being an international smash hit and establishing Moore’s quippier version of 007 as a fan favorite for years to come.  
For his latest mission, Bond has to team up with a rival agent from the KGB, Agent XXX (Barbara Bach), to try to take down yet another powerful industrialist who wants to take over the world – that would be Stromberg played Curd Jurgens who has designs on ruling it all from underwater.  And Stromberg is helped by a rather large henchman with a million dollar smile…..filled with sharp metal teeth whose name is Jaws!  Richard Kiel co-stars as Jaws in this action epic directed by Lewis Gilbert.

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Oscar-winning writer/director Jordan Peele returns with this third film after the horror smashes Get Out and Us…..and this time, he’s taking things in a slightly different direction.  There’s still horror involved but there’s also sci-fi and even many western elements.  This story focuses on the Haywoods, a brother (Oscar-winner Daniel Kaluuya) and sister (Keke Palmer) running a horse ranch in southern California that was left them by their father (Keith David) who died under mysterious circumstances emanating from something dangerous….up in the sky. :o 

And one night as they’re trying to figure out what to do with their dying ranch (business has been much slower since Westerns stopped being a regular thing in Hollywood movies), these circumstances return….scary noises and images, it SEEMS that there might be a UFO hovering near them.  So in light of recent economic circumstances, they decide that the most lucrative course of action for them would be to collect ACTUAL footage of the alleged UFO which they can sell for major profit….and that pretty much kicks off the story which has been teased by a very mysterious advertising campaign in the lead-up to this film’s release.  Steven Yeun, Michael Wincott, and Brandon Perea also co-star in this very unique summer thriller.   

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Remember when taking pictures required the use of an actual CAMERA and how the best way to see the fruits of your labor was to have them developed as PHOTOS?  Well even if you don’t, it wasn’t that long ago before the age of smartphones – this film actually came out just twenty years ago and features at its center, one unique individual whose job is to develop these pictures for the general public.  

His name is Seymour Parrish (otherwise known to others as “Sy the Photo Guy") and he was played by the late, great Robin Williams in what many consider to be among his best dramatic performances.  Running a photo lab at the local Sav-mart, Sy loves his job and is also obsessed with the photos of one particular local nuclear family…the Yorkins who are played by Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, and Dylan Smith.  

And of course, this obsession takes on unhealthy levels as Sy becomes more involved in the lives of this family.  What results is a tense, little thriller/character piece filled with striking visuals thanks very much to the talent of director Mark Romanek who after years of directing memorable music videos made this his feature directorial debut.

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When this film first came out 35 years ago, one of the taglines was “The Future of Law Enforcement.”  Well it’s become abundantly clear that the future has now become the present upon revisiting this sci-fi action classic directed by the legendary Paul Verhoeven who would also go on to direct films such as Total Recall, Starship Troopers, and…..Showgirls?  This remains of his best and most influential as it tells the story of Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) a police officer who is new to the dangerous streets of Detroit and gets brutally gunned down his first day on the job.  But apparently, that’s not the last we see or hear of Murphy as he is resurrected into a cybernetic crime fighter for the city of Detroit, thanks to the interventions of the all-powerful OCP organization.  He becomes known as Robocop and he has one ally partner played by Nancy Allen while having to take on several villains, most notably played by Ronny Cox and Kurtwood Smith.  

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WARNING: PROFANE LANGUANGE AND EXTREME VIOLENCE INCLUDED WITHIN AUDIO CLIPS FROM MOVIE

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