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Frost/Nixon (2008, Ron Howard)

December 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Once upon a time (in Hollywood), there was a bald director (who always wore a cap) who first got famous on television as an actor, then as a director of comedies, who then started making excellent mainstream Hollywood pictures. Then he started making mainstream crap and then it got worse.
The question of Frost/Nixon is the question […]

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Tagged: Frank Langella· Kevin Bacon· Oliver Platt· Peter Morgan· Ron Howard· Sam Rockwell· Universal Pictures· ★★★★

Tremors (1990, Ron Underwood)

June 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Tremors is a unique film. Even with the derivative setting–the isolated desert town reminds of 1950s Universal sci-fi pictures–and whole “Jaws with giant worms” aspect, it’s a monster slash thriller slash comedy. It starts a comedy and ends one, with S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock’s script full of comedic dialogue, in addition to all the […]

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Tagged: Brent Maddock· Kevin Bacon· Ron Underwood· S.S. Wilson· Universal Pictures· ★★★

Tremors (1990, Ron Underwood)

September 4th, 2005 · No Comments

When I first rediscovered Tremors, around 1995, it was on laserdisc. In the 1990s, Universal was one of the finest laserdisc companies, probably the finest. They put out a special edition of Tremors and, remembering that I liked it when I saw it on video (everyone saw Tremors on video), I bought it. Probably from […]

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Tagged: Brent Maddock· Kevin Bacon· Ron Underwood· S.S. Wilson· Universal Pictures· ★★★

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