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Review: COCAINE BEAR Lacks Bite – It’s More Like Cocaine Bore!

Cocaine Bear has become much more than a movie. It’s a cultural reference onto itself, a title that conjures up certain B-movie thrills and a trailer that set the internet ablaze. Written by Jimmy Warden, Cocaine Bear is loosely based on a true [...]

March 19, 2023

If You Make It, I Won’t Watch: FIELD OF DREAMS TV Series In The Works

Field Of Dreams is perfect. It doesn’t need to be remade, it doesn’t need to have a sequel, or be rebooted, or even rotoscoped and turned into an animated movie. It’s totally perfect as a standalone movie which has an emotional [...]

August 17, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Joel Edgerton’s THE GIFT

Joel Edgerton made his directorial debut with 2015’s The Gift, a thriller that is very much in the vein of the dramatic thrillers of the 1980s and 1990s (it has shades of the 1992 Kurt Russell/ Ray Liotta thriller Unlawful Entry). The Gift [...]

July 14, 2021

Trailer: Steven Soderbergh’s NO SUDDEN MOVE Starring Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, David Harbour, Ray Liotta, Jon Hamm & Brendan Fraser

Here’s the full trailer for Stephen Soderbergh latest film, No Sudden Move. Written by Ed Solomon, the film is a 1950s-set crime movie with an all-star cast. Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro and David Harbour, Ray Liotta, Jon Hamm, Brendan [...]

June 8, 2021

Notebook Reviews: HEARTBREAKERS

David Mirkin – 2001 Hearbreakers isn’t a bad comedy – but it would be nothing without it’s brilliant cast. Gene Hackman seems to be having a great time – the role is an odd choice for him. Sigourney Weaver [...]

May 22, 2021

Teaser Trailer For Steven Soderbergh’s All-Star NO SUDDEN MOVE

The mighty Stephen Soderbergh shows no sign of slowing down. Hot on the heels of 2020’s Let Them All Talk comes No Sudden Move, anew crime movie from the Oscar-winning auteur. The 1950s set drama features yet another all-star cast including [...]

May 20, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan & Director Phil Alden Robinson On The Set Of FIELD OF DREAMS

Director Phil Alden Robinson‘s Field of Dreams has developed legendary status due to the line “If you build it he will come”. The film, based on W. P. Kinsella’s 1982 novel, Shoeless Joe tells the story of an Iowa farmer, Ray [...]

February 4, 2021

Notebook Reviews: UNLAWFUL ENTRY

Jonathan Kaplan – 1992 Unlawful Entry is a slick little thriller from 1992, which has Kurt Russell doing what he does best – playing the everyman battling the odds alongside his wife (Madeleine Stowe) . Here he’s pitted against Ray [...]

April 1, 2020

Chasing The Dragon: Drugs On Film

Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario, coming to Blu-ray, DVD and digital platforms from February 1st, 2016 courtesy of Lionsgate Home Entertainment, is a visceral, unflinching portrayal of the war against drugs. Critically lauded and impossible to tear your [...]

January 26, 2016

Blu-ray Review: Joel Edgerton Delivers THE GIFT To Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall

Joel Edgerton makes his directorial debut with The Gift, a thriller that is very much in the vein of the dramatic thrillers of the 1980s and 1990s (it has shades of the 1992 Kurt Russell/ Ray Liotta thriller Unlawful Entry). The Gift stars Jason [...]

December 6, 2015

Blu-ray Review: SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR Has A Cast To Die For… But Not Much Else

Nobody had ever seen anything like Sin City when it hit screens back in 2005. Ten years later, the impact of this sequel is much less. Robert Rodriguez created an original visual language that brought Frank Miller’s comic book to life, paving the [...]

December 13, 2014