Based on the novella by Don Winslow, director and screenwriter Bart Layton’s Crime 101 has the look and feel of a 1940’s noir, complete with a long opening sequence, shot in dark shadows. Set in Los Angeles, Chris Hemsworth stars…
Based on the novel “Dog Soldiers” by Robert Stone, every frame of 1978’s Who’ll Stop the Rain is heavy with the disenchantment surrounding the Vietnam War. Soldiers who had gone to war as innocent young men, came back hardened, having…
Robert Redford’s first movie role since 2005 and his ninth directorial effort, The Company You Keep, based on the novel by Neil Gordon, is a fictionalized account of the radical anti-war movement called the Weather Underground. Old news footage at…
Loosely based on true events, Gangster Squad is the story of a group of rag tag police officers brought together in 1949 Los Angeles, in a desperate attempt to bring down the ruthless gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn). Seeped in…
A sleeper hit in 1981, Arthur grossed nearly $100 million in the U.S. alone, won two Oscars (for best song and supporting actor, John Gielgud) and nominations for star Dudley Moore and original screenplay. For the 2011 remake, Hobson the…
A&E | 1976-77 | 1637 mins. | NR I think it’s safe to say that network television doesn’t make mini-series like Rich Man, Poor Man anymore. Book 1, aired on ABC in one-hour episodes at 10:00pm ET/PT on Monday night…
Sony Pictures | 1977 | 125 mins | Rated PG It seems safe to say that author and screenwriter Peter Benchley will always be best known for Jaws, his 1974 bestselling novel that he subsequently turned into a screenplay with…
I’m old enough to remember when the idea of making a satirical movie about the Vietnam War would have been considered to be the height of bad taste. Times have definitely changed. The Vietnam War seems to be in the…