Directed by Peter Hyams, 1986’s Running Scared is the story of two Chicago southside police detectives, Ray Hughes (Gregory Hines) and Danny Costanzo (Billy Crystal). They tend to bend the rules a bit, but get the job done. They’re out…
Based on the unfinished F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same name, 1976’s The Last Tycoon marks the first time Robert De Niro played an even remotely likable character. Set in the 1930’s, the film follows Monroe Stahr (De Niro,…
Phil Smoot’s second film as a writer-director released in 1985 (and apparently his last), The Dark Power once again features Lash LaRue, this time with his famous bullwhip in hand. When an American Indian medicine man dies, a group of…
The master of the whip Lash LaRue returns, this time to battle aliens. For the uninitiated, LaRue made a name for himself starring in a series of B-movies in the 1940’s and 1950’s whose trademark was his bullwhip. A love…
The first release in the Kino Cult line, Lorna the Exorcist from Spanish maverick Jesús “Jess” Franco was his fourth film of 1974. As only Franco can do, Lorna the Exorcist is both among his most revered and reviled works….
Filmmaking at its finest, Oppenheimer requires you to have your brain fully activated or you’ll surely miss something. Given its large cast and 180-minute runtime, director Christopher Nolan has given audiences a lot to digest. A major success at the…
Based on the Harold Robbins novel of the same name, The Carpetbaggers was a landmark of the sexual revolution of the 1960’s. offering more heated embraces and sexual innuendo than most films of the era. George Peppard stars as Jonas…
Created by Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi for Apple TV+, For All Mankind is set in an alternate reality where the global space race never ended. Beginning in 1969, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leono makes history as the…
Never one to shy away from controversy, director Billy Wilder took on Stalag 17; a comedy tinged war film less than a decade after the end of World War II and with the United States mired in the Korean War….
It was the worst of times, particularly for high school football player Jack Dundee (Robin Williams), who dropped a title-winning pass against Bakersfield. That was twelve years earlier but the citizens of small-town Taft, California won’t let him forget about…