Magnum Force (1973)
As long as you aren’t expecting this follow-up to Dirty Harry to live up to the style, influence, and thematic resonance of its predecessor, Magnum Force delivers the goods to action movie junkies, as well as Eastwood’s myriad...
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Consenting Adults (1992)
Richard Parker (Kline) is a composer of advertising jingles with a mountain of debts and a staleness in a marriage to his wife, Priscilla (Mastrantonio). His new neighbor is a friendly but impulsive guy named...
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Tom Hanks (The Polar Express, The Terminal) stars as renowned professor of historical religious symbolism Robert Langdon, who finds himself embroiled in a deadly web of intrigue when an old crony ends up murdered in...
Judge Dredd (1995)
Warden: “So, tell me, Rico, what’s the meaning of life?” Rico: “It ends.” The above passage of dialogue could just as aptly be applied to answer what the meaning of the movie is. Judge...
Looker (1981)
Looker is one of Michael Crichton’s several modern science fiction thrillers that are almost wholly interchangeable in terms of plot developments and general storylines, even if the events that hold them together are all...
Fist of Legend (1994)
Fist of Legend is the updated remake of the classic Bruce Lee film, The Chinese Connection, this time starring Hong Kong superstar Jet Li. Lee’s are big shoes to fill for the diminutive Li, but if anyone...
Capote (2005)
It’s not quite a biography about famous writer Truman Capote so much as a biographical account of the making of his most famous work, In Cold Blood, during the 1960s. It would be a landmark...
Cutter’s Way (1981)
Originally released under the book’s title of Cutter and Bone, Cutter’s Way is a film that has a purposely unfocused way of telling a story, languishing in some scenes in lackadaisical fashion, and as such, it...
The Trackers (1971)
Ernest Borgnine plays Sam Paxton, a Texas rancher who comes home one day to find his son dead and his daughter missing, and the only clue as to the perpetrator comes in the form...
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
The 1981 version of The Postman Always Rings Twice marks the second time that the novel of the same name by James M. Cain, author of such noir classics as “Double Indemnity of the Third...