Living for the Cinema

Our “Living for the Bond” Series continues with one of two films in the 007 franchise starring T-Dal himself….Timothy Dalton.  

It all centers on Bond taking revenge against a powerful drug lord playe…

Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon co-star as the iconic characters in this highly influential outlaw road movie directed by Ridley Scott – both actresses were nominated for Oscars along with the screenw…

In August 2016, director David McKenzie gave us a satisfying modern Western focusing on two bank-robbing brothers played by Chris Pine and Ben Foster nabbing banks all over Texas with at least one Te…

WARNING - LANGUAGE

35 years ago, the wacky directing trio (Zucker, Abrams, Zucker) behind Airplane and The Naked Gun gave us a pretty crazy story: a wealthy clothing tycoon plots to murder his heiress…

Everyone has their first James Bond movie, the version they grew up with –
and this was my first ever James Bond movie and also the man himself, Roger Moore.  

This movie just turned 40, which makes me…

WARNING - VIOLENT GORE

“From the beautiful, twisted mind of James Gunn” as the tagline tells us…yes the vaunted director of Marvel Studio’s Guardians of the Galaxy has now directed a superhero epic fo…

Before Bond…..before Bourne….before Mission Impossible…. there was this all-out spy thriller directed by the Master of Suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock! 

The plot centers on a mild-mannered ad man, …

Spike Lee directs this New York-based bank heist thriller starring SIX Oscar winners and/or nominees - Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, Clive Owen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Willem Dafoe, and the late great …

What if forty years ago, a brilliant filmmaker (Brian DePalma) directed one of America’s biggest stars (John Travolta) in a very timely, well-crafted thriller involving surveillance….and nobody came?…

M. Night Shyamalan – the director of The Sixth Sense, Split, Signs, and Unbreakable - once again takes the audience on a wild ride through mystery and horror.  

This time, he’s doing it on a remote be…

Happy 30th Anniversary to this tale of an undercover FBI agent and a surfing bank robber thrust together through fate – Keanu Reeves plays the FBI agent and the late great Patrick Swayze plays the ba…

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Ten years ago, this movie was hyped up as “The Female Hangover” and gratefully, it turned out to be so much more than just a raunchy, gross-out comedy.  

This was the break-out movie…

Stephen Soderbergh, the director of Out of Sight, Ocean’s 11, Erin Brockovich, Magic Mike, and too many other notable films to list directs this HBO Max movie with an amazing cast including Don Chead…

35 years ago one of the Greatest Sci-Fi Action Films and Best Sequels of All Time was released. 

THIS time, it’s WAR. Ripley returns to LV-426 to take on the chest-bursting monsters that haunt her nig…

Coinciding with the release of Black Widow (the first new film from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to be released in two years) it seemed like the right time to revisit this HUGELY successful sequel w…

Happy 30th Anniversary to one of the most acclaimed and iconic movies of the '90s.

This coming-of-age drama took theaters by storm with some of the most up-and-coming actors of its time.  Cuba Goodin…

This 4th of July, we discuss this Revolutionary War epic directed by Roland Emmerich who also directed Independence Day….but is this movie patriotic?  Mel Gibson stars in this tale of war and revenge…

One of the most quotable comedies of all time just turned forty!


This movie is directed by comedy legend Ivan Reitman who would give us Ghostbusters a couple of years later.  This movie also stars two…

Vin Diesel lives his life a quarter-mile at a time while Paul Walker does his best Keanu impression in this "Point Break-on-wheels" action blockbuster that kicked off a franchise and still burns past…

Do you remember any movies Chris Nolan directed before The Dark Knight?
Twenty years ago, he gave us this masterpiece and it’s quite unforgettable! It stars Guy Pearce as someone who has lost the abi…