Road to Perdition (2002)
Following up an Academy Award winner isn’t an easy thing to do as a director, as the expectation level rises immensely. This is even more true when that Oscar-winner is also your first directorial...
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Love and Bullets (1979)
Without the ridiculous and typical Charles Bronson ending, Love and Bullets might have gotten a modest recommendation. Within this rather routine thriller, there are a number of things to like. For starters, the storyline removes...
The Flaming Brothers (1987)
THE FLAMING BROTHERS is probably the most graphically violent film I have ever had the misfortune to see, and that’s saying a lot. There is so much gruesome displaying of violence, that it seriously...
Century of the Dragon (1999)
The duo that brought you the infamous Naked Killer are back with an altogether different kind of actioner in Century of the Dragon, reminiscent more of the Goodfellas/Casino kind of filmmaking Martin Scorsese is known for than anything...
Snatch (2000)
“Mr. Madonna”, Guy Ritchie, follows up his splash debut to Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels with another wryly comic (and violent) crime piece with Snatch. Like the previous film, it features a cast of almost two...
Rounders (1998)
A young law student (Damon) spends many an evening playing high-stakes poker because he’s one of the best. He meets his match one day in the form of a Russian gangster (Malkovich) and blows his entire...
A Bronx Tale (1993)
A Bronx Tale starts off with a young boy witnessing a shooting in his Bronx neighborhood, but doesn’t finger the gangster that committed the murder. The gangster (Palminteri, Analyze This) practically adopts the boy as his own,...
Final Analysis (1992)
A psychiatrist (Gere, Pretty Woman) begins a romance with the sister (Basinger, Batman) of one of his patients (Thurman, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen), although later finding out she’s married to a powerful gangster-type (Roberts, Runaway Train). His...
The Mask (1994)
Jim Carrey (Dumb & Dumber, Batman Forever) stars as bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss, a nice guy, but also, a total loser. One day, Stanley stumbles across a strange wooden mask which turns out to have...