Living for the Cinema

THE prototypical buddy cop movie has just reached its 35th-anniversary as directed by the late great Richard Donner.

It stars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as the iconic Riggs & Murtaugh – they’re assigned as partners for the first time and needless to say, things are pretty tense off the bat. 

But as they get enveloped in a complicated murder case involving the death of the daughter of one of Murtaugh’s war buddies, they start to uncover a dangerous conspiracy involving ex-military, drug dealers, and a particularly intimidating mercenary named Mr. Joshua played by Gary Busey.  And then things start to get increasingly LETHAL….

WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE AND MENTIONS OF SUICIDE

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In the long-standing Hollywood tradition of The African Queen and Romancing the Stone, we have a NEW version of one of those types of stories with this action/adventure rom-com featuring two attractive stars (Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum) on a treacherous quest through the South American jungle to find….the titular "Lost City" of D.  

Along the way, we also have Danielle Radcliffe as a mad industrialist who has first kidnapped Bullock’s novelist to help him find treasure buried within this lost city and….Brad Pitt as a very handsome (!) extraction expert who has been hired to rescue Bullock’s character as well.  

Upon release, one common question about this new major studio film has been, “Does Hollywood really still make these kinds of movies?”  But the even bigger question remains: “Does Hollywood even know how to still make these kinds of movies WELL?” 

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Thirty years ago, writer/director Ron Shelton followed up his classic baseball comedy Bull Durham with this buddy comedy/romantic comedy set in the world of street basketball around Los Angeles.  It stars Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson as two basketball hustlers who end hustling each other on the courts…..along with teaming up to hustle others.  Every one just shines in this movie including Rosie Perez in a star-making performance as Woody’s girlfriend….and there’s even a special cameo from the late, great Alex Trebek along the way!

WARNING: ADULT LANGUAGE

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Thirty years ago, director Paul Verhoeven followed up his modern action classics Total Recall and Robocop with this erotic mystery thriller starring Michael Douglas as a troubled San Francisco police detective investigating the grisly murder of a former rock star.  The chief suspect is a famous author who was dating the victim played by Sharon Stone in what was a genuine star-making performance.  Of course, the police detective falls for the chief suspect while other folks are murdered and……chaos (or hilarity?) ensues!  

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Fifty years ago this month, we saw the release of one the greatest and most influential films in the history of American cinema.  Directed by a then-relatively unknown Francis Ford Coppola and adapted from a hugely popular fictional best-seller from a few years prior from author Mario Puzo, this movie took the world by storm having a instant and long-lasting impact on not only films but pop culture in general.  If you weren’t already aware of the actual plot, let’s just say that it’s mainly about….FAMILY.  Marlon Brando and Al Pacino star in this crime epic as Vito and Michael Corleone, two generations of leadership over a powerful organized crime family.  Also included among this legendarily stacked cast are Diane Keaton, James Caan, Robert Duvall, and Talia Shire.

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Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, let’s revisit the ‘90’s blockbuster thriller which helped make dying rivers (the Chicago River) green for the holiday mainstream. 

This epic blockbuster stars Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble as The Fugitive on the run after being falsely convicted for the murder of his wife.  

It also co-stars Tommy Lee Jones as U.S. Marshall Sam Gerard who’s hot on his trail, in a role for which he won an Oscar.  Directed by Andrew Davis, this U.S. Marshall does a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse, and doghouse! 

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How did a small, idiosyncratic western family drama directed by someone who had not done a feature film in more than a decade become this year’s Oscar front-runner??  

Campion has now become the first woman to receive two nominations for Best Director – her previous one was more than 27 years ago for The Piano.  The story takes place in 1920s Montana and is mainly focused on two brothers who run a cattle ranch, the woman one of them falls in love with, and her troubled son….or is he?  

It stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Kirsten Dunst, and Kodi Smit-McPhee… each of whom also received Oscar nominations for their exemplary work. 

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The character of Batman has been everywhere in media in recent years….and yet it has been almost ten years since we had a proper stand-alone Batman movie since "The Dark Knight Rises."

We close out our ongoing series examining this latest incarnation of the Batman/Bruce Wayne character, this time starring Robert Pattinson in the title role and directed by Matt Reeves, who gave us the last two Planet of the Apes movies.  Also along for the ride are Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman, Paul Dano as The Riddler, Colin Farrell as The Penguin, and Andy Serkis as Alfred…

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We kick off Women’s History Month with this often touching and funny corporate legal drama based on true events directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Julia Roberts in the titular lead role, for which she won the Best Actress Oscar that year. 

Julia plays a single mother/ex-beauty queen who gets a  job with a law firm in Southern California run by Albert Finney’s Ed Masry, a role he received an Oscar nomination for.  Through her work, she gets increasingly involved with an ongoing lawsuit involving the local power company and their questionable actions, allowing toxic chemicals to poison the water of a nearby small town – it all develops into what many consider to be one of the ultimate David Vs. Goliath stories of recent years.

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Thriller Week continues with the latest directorial effort from the legendary Steven Soderbergh who apparently filmed this on the fly in Seattle at the height of the COVID pandemic. 

This movie is a nifty little thriller starring Zoey Kravitz as a tech analyst for a new modern home-based communications device along the lines of Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri….this one is called the “Kimi.”  

While analyzing some voice streams recorded by users of this device, she stumbles onto a recording that might provide evidence of a violent crime.  And when she starts to investigate the source of this recording and report it…..she then starts to find herself in danger!     

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