I wonder if the U.S. Army would like to get a movie like Tank out today. The movie’s politics are… well, they’re not hilarious, but they’re so blatant, it’s stunning. It’s a pro-Army film and an intensely anti-Georgia film. It likes Tennessee though. From Tank, a future cultural historian could surmise the residents of Georgia […]
Entries Tagged as 'Dan Gordon'
Tank (1984, Marvin J. Chomsky)
March 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
Tagged: C. Thomas Howell· Dan Gordon· James Garner· Marvin J. Chomsky· Universal Pictures· ★★½
Wyatt Earp (1994, Lawrence Kasdan), the expanded edition
September 10th, 2007 · No Comments
Thirty-nine years old when Wyatt Earp was released, all Kevin Costner needed to do to de-age himself twenty years was smile. During the young Earp days, Costner looks younger than costar Annabeth Gish, not to mention Linden Ashby (playing his younger brother).
The extended version of Wyatt Earp clocks in at three and a half hours. […]
Tagged: Bill Pullman· Catherine O'Hara· Dan Gordon· Dennis Quaid· Gene Hackman· Kevin Costner· Lawrence Kasdan· Michael Madsen· Tom Sizemore· Warner Bros.· ★★★★
The Assignment (1997, Christian Duguay)
March 23rd, 2006 · 1 Comment
Since it’s Robert Ludlum week here at The Stop Button (actually it’s not, these two were a coincidence), I watched The Assignment, which is an unofficial adaptation of Ludlum’s Bourne trilogy. Again, I read Ludlum back when I was in junior high–maybe early high school–and I remember seeing this film and wondering why it wasn’t […]
Tagged: Aidan Quinn· Ben Kingsley· Christian Duguay· Dan Gordon· Donald Sutherland· Sabi H. Shabtai· Triumph Films· ★★



