I don’t know when I first realized De Niro and Pacino had never been in a movie together (really together)–it was long before Heat; their pairing doesn’t exactly seem obvious (both were always leading men), but something about their acting pedigree just made it seem natural. For example, Pacino’s never made a film with Scorsese […]
Entries Tagged as 'Brian Dennehy'
Righteous Kill (2008, Jon Avnet)
September 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Tagged: Al Pacino· Brian Dennehy· Jon Avnet· Overture Films· Robert De Niro· Russell Gewirtz· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005, Jean-François Richet)
July 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Assault on Precinct 13 doesn’t remind of an early 1990s action movie because of Dorian Harewood, Kim Coates or Brian Dennehy showing up–or even because of the movie specific end credits song (by KRS-One no less). It doesn’t even remind of that genre because it lifts the icicle shamelessly from Die Hard 2. Even the […]
Tagged: Brian Dennehy· Gabriel Byrne· James DeMonaco· Jean-François Richet· John Carpenter· Laurence Fishburne· Maria Bello· Rogue Pictures· ★★
First Blood (1982, Ted Kotcheff)
June 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Maybe if it weren’t for the Stephen J. Cannell television techniques (cars flying through the air or exploding on impact), the asinine, comedic banter between the deputies, some poor writing and Richard Crenna, First Blood might have been okay. Ted Kotcheff isn’t a good director though, so maybe not. Kotcheff shoots exteriors well (the stuff […]
Tagged: Brian Dennehy· David Caruso· David Morrell· Michael Kozoll· Orion Pictures· Sylvester Stallone· Ted Kotcheff· William Sackheim· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Perfect Witness (1989, Robert Mandel)
January 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Perfect Witness is a standard TV movie, even if it was on HBO (I’m not sure what got it on HBO even… language, maybe?), even if it does have a great cast. During the opening credits, it’s names like Brian Dennehy, Stockard Channing, Delroy Lindo, Joe Grifasi, and Aidan Quinn. Robert Mandel directed it. It […]
Tagged: Aidan Quinn· Brian Dennehy· Delroy Lindo· Home Box Office· Robert Mandel· Ron Hutchinson· Terry Curtis Fox· ★★
F/X (1986, Robert Mandel)
October 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment
About ten minutes in to F/X, I got wondering how the film was going to deal with being a special effects-filled film about a guy doing special effects for films. I suppose they didn’t have to deal with that relationship, but it kept seeming more and more like they were going to need to address […]
Tagged: Brian Dennehy· Diane Venora· Gregory Fleeman· Orion Pictures· Robert Mandel· Robert T. Megginson· ★★★
Ratatouille (2007, Brad Bird)
July 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
While Ratatouille features Pixar’s finest three-dimensional CG, it also features their worst two dimensional characters. The problem’s apparent from the start–the main character has one conflict and it turns out to resolve itself quite easily in the end. There are other conflicts in the film, but they’re all external to the main character, Remy–whose name […]
Tagged: Brad Bird· Brian Dennehy· Emily Cook· Ian Holm· Jan Pinkava· Jim Capobianco· Kathy Greenberg· Peter O'Toole· Pixar Animation Studios· Walt Disney Pictures· ★★
The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995, James Keach)
May 11th, 2006 · No Comments
I wonder if, in the early 1970s, anyone could tell Robert Duvall was going to end up playing the scruffy-looking, ne’er do-well with the heart of gold over and over again. He doesn’t particularly act in The Stars Fell on Henrietta. He just shows up and does his thing. His scruffy-looking thing. There’s some attempt […]
Tagged: Aidan Quinn· Billy Bob Thornton· Brian Dennehy· Clint Eastwood· James Keach· Philip Railsback· Robert Duvall· Warner Bros.· ★★



