The Blues Brothers (1980)
The Blues Brothers ranks among my favorite films of all time — not the best, just a favorite. With inspiration that never remotely comes close to ceasing, John Landis’ wildly over-budget film is more an experience...
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The Sugarland Express (1974)
The Sugarland Express tells the tale, based on true events chronicled in 1969, of Clovis (Atherton, Ghostbusters) and Lou Jean Poplin (Hawn,Foul Play), a married couple from Texas who determine to travel hundreds of miles to Sugarland,...
Bullitt (1968)
Although many people associate Bullitt with the 10-minute car chase at the heart of the film, and for cementing McQueen’s (and his Ford Mustang) iconic coolness factor, it is also cited by many as the film...
The French Connection (1971)
In the 1960s and early 1970s, large amounts of heroin had been trafficked into the United States from France, who refined opium obtained from Turkey into the addictive, potentially deadly drug. U,S, author Robin...
The Dead Pool (1988)
The fifth and final Dirty Harry film may not go out with a bang, but it is an amusing and exciting enough cop thriller to please the genre fans. There are no social obstacles to hurdle...
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
A huge success at the time of its release (only Star Wars made more money in 1977), Smokey and the Bandit was the right movie at the right time, riding the wave of Burt Reynolds’ popularity, rascally...
The Italian Job (2003)
“Marky Mark” Wahlberg must have been kicking himself in the fanny after passing up the chance to be in the immensely entertaining Steven Soderbergh heist flick, Ocean’s Eleven. His commitment to the critically panned remake...
Ronin (1998)
The Japanese word for a master-less samurai is “Ronin”. Fittingly enough, a group of international mercenary covert op specialists are employed by a mysterious underground spy organization to obtain a suitcase they do not...