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Notebook Reviews: OUT OF SIGHT

Steven Soderbergh – 1998. Out Of Sight is as slick and fun crime film from director Steven Soderbergh. If you need an example of a movie in which all the elements come together in a perfect way, then this is it. The direction is superb, the [...]

September 20, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Jennifer Lopez & Steven Soderbergh On The Set Of OUT OF SIGHT

Director Steven Soderbergh‘s big screen adaptation of Elmore Leonard‘s Out Of Sight was released in June 1998. Written for the screen by Scott Frank, the film was Soderbergh’s first collaboration with George Clooney – the [...]

September 15, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Jackie Earle Haley’s CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES

The 2015 film Criminal Activities sees John Travolta return to the same type of criminal underworld that served him so well during his 1990s comeback with Pulp Fiction and Get Shorty. Actor Jackie Earle Haley makes his directorial debut with this [...]

July 29, 2021

Notebook Reviews: JACKIE BROWN

Quentin Tarantino – 1997 Although it’s not quite as good as Pulp Fiction (few films could be), Jackie Brown is brilliant piece of filmmaking from Quentin Tarantino. This Elmore Leonard adaptation is an engrossing, laid-back [...]

December 30, 2020

DVD Review: John Travolta Gets To Be Cool In CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES

Criminal Activities sees John Travolta return to the same type of criminal underworld that served him so well during his 1990s comeback with Pulp Fiction and Get Shorty. Actor Jackie Earle Haley makes his directorial debut with this Quentin [...]

February 29, 2016

DVD Review: CSI’s George Eads Gambles And Steven Seagal Channels Marlon Brando In GUTSHOT

Gutshot (also known as Gutshot Straight) is a weird ‘90s throwback starring C.S.I star George Eads as a Las Vegas gambler who gets in over his head when he wants to make some easy money. Director Justin Steele surrounds Eads with a selection of [...]

February 18, 2015