5 Performers Who Deserve A Role In A Tarantino Movie
One of the great things about watching a Quentin Tarantino film is the chance to see B-movie actors and various grindhouse veterans getting a chance to show off just how talented they actually are....
View ArticleWhat Lisa Marie Watched Last Night: Jersey Shore Shark Attack (dir. by John...
On Friday night, I saw Moonrise Kingdom. As our own Leon the Duke explained in his own review on this very site, Moonrise Kingdom is a thought-provoking, relentlessly quirky little film from Wes...
View ArticleStallone Acts: Cop Land (1997, directed by James Mangold)
Garrison, New Jersey is a middle class suburb that is known as Cop Land. Under the direction of Lt. Ray Donlan (Harvey Keitel), several NYPD cops have made their home in Garrison, financing their...
View ArticleFilm Review: Fingers (dir by James Toback)
Welcome to method actor Hell! The 1978 film, Fingers, tell the story of Jimmy “Fingers” Angelilli (Harvey Keitel). Jimmy is a creep who works as a debt collector for his father, a small-time loan...
View ArticleScenes I Love: Paulie Explains Purgatory in The Sopranos
Rest in Peace, Tony Sirico. From The Sopranos, this was one of Sirico’s best performances:
View ArticleNew York Cop (1993, directed by Tôru Murakawa)
Toshi (Tôru Nakamura) is a tough New York cop who is assigned to work undercover in the East Village because, according to his boss, no one will suspect that a Japanese man is actually a cop....
View ArticleScenes I Love: The Sopranos Stage An Intervention
Perusing the imdb, I saw that today was the birthday of the late Tony Sirico. Sirico was a former mob associate who, after serving a term in prison, reinvented himself as an actor. Because of his...
View ArticleLive Tweet Alert: Join #FridayNightFlix for Backtrack!
As some of our regular readers undoubtedly know, I am involved in a few weekly live tweets on Twitter and Mastodon. I host #FridayNightFlix every Friday, I co-host #ScarySocial on Saturday, and I am...
View ArticleGuilty Pleasure No. 62: Backtrack (dir by Dennis Hopper)
Sometimes, you see a film that is just so weird and incoherent that you can’t help but love it. Of course, it also helps if the film has a once-in-a-lifetime cast of actors who you would never expect...
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