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...
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Jaws 2 (1978)
Shortly after the monumental success of Jaws, Universal Pictures wanted Steven Spielberg to follow up with another entry as part of a four-picture deal he signed with them. He didn’t bother to entertain that...
Last Embrace (1979)
Twelve years he would put his type of influential thriller on the map in The Silence of the Lambs, Jonathan Demme made an homage to the master of the contemporary thriller himself, Alfred Hitchcock. Last Embrace may...
Jaws (1975)
Nearly a year prior to its publication in February 1974, film producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown, in collaboration with Universal Pictures, acquired the rights for a screen adaptation of “Jaws,” a novel being...
The Punisher (2004)
While I am a comic book fan, and I have collected many issues of Marvel’s “The Punisher” and some of its offshoot titles, I do feel that the character’s limitations make it a weak...
Blue Thunder (1983)
Blue Thunder‘s title refers to a military-style, modified helicopter that is being tested as a potential future means to quell crowd insurrections. The test pilot for the helicopter is Frank Murphy (Scheider), who is...
Blue Thunder (1983)
Blue Thunder‘s title refers to a military-style, modified helicopter that is being tested as a potential future means to quell crowd insurrections. The test pilot for the helicopter is Frank Murphy (Scheider), who is...