“The Muscles From Brussels” invades New Orleans and is Cajun(?) apparently, in this high-octane action classic, the first American film directed by the inimitable John Woo. Come for the motorcycle chases and stay for the rattlesnake punches as Jean-Claude Van Damme high kicks his way through a “most dangerous game” in “Hard Target” (1993).

The Big Easy gets sleazy when a rumpled gumshoe detective (Mickey Rourke) takes a case from a mysterious benefactor (Robert DeNiro) that takes him from the back alleys of New York City to the sweat-soaked bayous of Louisiana. A movie that very nearly carried an NC-17 Rating, join us as we venture through a haunted New Orleans where the devil always gets his due with Alan Parker’s “Angel Heart” (1987).

This week, James Bond takes a trip down south to New Orleans in pursuit of a dastardly, yet pragmatic, entrepreneur/dictator who loves heroin, shark tanks, and tarot seductions (though, not necessarily in that order).
Join us as we tip back a Sazerac and play little alligator hop scotch with Roger Moore in “Live and Let Die” (1973).

The vampire life seems like a glamorous one, especially in New Orleans, until you end up spending centuries playing cat and mouse with your charismatic situationship who can’t die, no matter how much of his blood you spill. Rare has a movie had more Louisiana bona fides than this classic homoerotic epic, a sharp-toothed tale where Tom Cruise lets his freak flag fly, the world is introduced to the generational talent that is Kirsten Dunst, and Brad Pitt looks like he wants to eat a bullet…mostly because he does! Break out the torches and crack back open the old Tumblr page because this week on Reel Magnolias, we’re diving fangs first into the cadaverous clutches of Anne Rice’s “Interview With The Vampire” (1994).