At 30 years old, I have never, until yesterday, watched any of films in the original Indiana Jones trilogy in their entirety, and if I have, I have not done so since childhood. I certainly remember seeing the action sequences of “Temple of Doom” many many many many many many many times with my best [...]
MOVIE – “Tony Arzenta” AKA “Big Guns” AKA “No Way Out” DIRECTOR – Duccio Tessari WRITER – Roberto Gandus, Ugo Liberatore, and Franco Verucci SIX DEGREES OF CAST & CREW -This movie has a ton of different titles, depending on where you are. In Italy, it was released as “Tony Arzenta” (and “Tony Arzenta – Big [...]
MOVIE – “Dead Heat” DIRECTOR – Mark Goldblatt WRITER – Terry Black SIX DEGREES OF CAST & CREW -Dead Heat feels a bit like “Lethal Weapon” with zombies, in that you have a pair of funny buddy cops who get into wacky misadventures. Even though neither Roger Mortis (Treat Williams) or Doug Bigelow (Joe Piscopo) [...]
MOVIE - “21 Jump Street” DIRECTOR – Phil Lord, Chris Miller WRITER – Michael Bacall (screenplay and story), Jonah Hill (story) SIX DEGREES OF CAST & CREW -Everyone knows Nick Offerman as the awesome Ron Swanson from “Parks and Recreation.” If you don’t, you need to look up Ron Swanson on YouTube and thank me later. [...]
Andrew sits 30 feet away from Michael Biehn at a screening of… “The Victim”!
MOVIE - “Shaft” DIRECTOR – Gordon Parks WRITER – Ernest Tidyman, John F.D. Black SIX DEGREES OF CAST & CREW ‑Director Gordon Parks brings an intense visual style to “Shaft.” That’s easy to do when you’re a professional photographer for Life Magazine. Parks is also the co-founder of Essence Magazine; Parks’s Hitchcock cameo is as the [...]
MOVIE – “Chronicle” DIRECTOR – Josh Trank WRITER – Max Landis SIX DEGREES OF CAST & CREW –If the name Max Landis sounds familiar to you, then that’s because you’re a fan of Masters of Horror. He wrote the episode Deer Woman, which was directed by his father. His father? Why, he’s none other than [...]
MOVIE - “Crank” DIRECTOR – Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (as Neveldine/Taylor) WRITER – Neveldine/Taylor SIX DEGREES OF CAST & CREW -Co-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor are as up-close and personal as you can get. During Crank, Neveldine and Taylor were the directors, writers, and even operated the cameras. The two got their start in [...]
MOVIE - “The Family” AKA “Violent City” DIRECTOR – Sergio Sollima WRITERS – Massimo De Rita, Dino Maiuri (story ); Gianfranco Calligarich, Sauro Scavolini, Sergio Sollima, and Lina Wertmuller (screenplay) SIX DEGREES OF CAST & CREW ‑This movie has been released multiple times in the United States alone. In 1970, it was released as Violent City, [...]
CINEMA NARCS BREAKFAST SERIALS SERIES – Ace Drummond DIRECTORS – Ford Beebe, Cliff Smith WRITERS – Wyndham Gittens, Norman S. Hall, Ray Trampe SIX DEGREES OF CAST AND CREW – Actor Robert Warwick can be seen in the Joan Crawford thriller, “A Woman’s Face” (1941). Joan also starred in 1954′s “Johnny Guitar”, co-starring a young [...]