Assassination (1987)
Charles Bronson (Love and Bullets, Once Upon a Time in the West) stars as Jay ‘Killy’ Killion, the chief Secret Service agent charged with the protection of the new First Lady of the United...
by Vincent Leo · Published January 16, 2012 · Last modified March 20, 2019
Charles Bronson (Love and Bullets, Once Upon a Time in the West) stars as Jay ‘Killy’ Killion, the chief Secret Service agent charged with the protection of the new First Lady of the United...
1980s / Action / Comedy / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published May 6, 2007 · Last modified September 2, 2023
In the mid-1970s, Don Simpson relocated to Beverly Hills for a job developing films for Paramount Pictures. A mechanic’s son from Anchorage, Alaska, Simpson felt out of place residing among the wealthy elite. After...
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...
Death Wish succeeds more as an anti-liberal backlash than as a movie, with an engaging premise of a conscientious objector who takes up arms in the streets of New York City when he finds that...
Eye of the Beholder is the perfect example of why it’s a disaster to try to make an art film out of a standard thriller. Stephan Elliott, acclaimed for his work on The Adventures of...
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