David Ansen
- Contributor, Newsweek
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator 2: Judgement Day does its best to keep this familiar scenario fresh. There are some surprises, fun bits of action, interesting relationships between characters especially between John and the T100. and the effects on the villain are great. With all that said though this is still a nonstop action movie that is remarkably similar to the first. The film overdoes it in the action, recycles some plot elements, and isn’t as paced as well as its predecessor.
Rocky II
Rocky II was made in 1979 and Stallone directed it as far as I know, it's the continuation, sequel or follow on from the original Rocky movie... Rocky II see's the return of Talia Shire, Burt Young, Burgess Meredith, Carl Weathers and of course Sylvester Stallone.... To me Rocky II is a bit like the original but added more fun to it and there's scenes like Rocky (Stallone) and Adrian (Shire) walking through or near the zoo with snow on the ground and a tiger.
What’s Up, Docs? A Year of Groundbreaking Nonfiction Movies
After a year in which reality grotesquely surpassed our fictions and large portions of the populace thought fiction was reality, it’s not surprising that for many of us, documentary filmmaking seemed more compelling, more urgent, more necessary than the tales concocted in moviemakers’ imaginations.
Rocky III
Rocky was a great film, Rocky II was by miles better than the original.... In 1982 we saw the return of Sylvester Stallone as he returns as Rocky Balboa in "ROCKY III" and this time Mr.T is his opponent to try and defeat. Rocky (Stallone) gets KO'd and destroyed by Clubber Lang (Mr.T) then Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) says when he beat him it hurt his pride and it hurt him and tells Rocky he needs to get the Eye of the tiger back to defeat Clubber Lang.
First Look at Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’
Aaron Sorkin remembers the day, 14 years ago, when he was summoned to Steven Spielberg’s house and offered a job. “He told me he wanted to make a movie about the riots at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention and the trial that followed,” he says.
Not Feeling The Force
ILLUSTRATION BY ALLISON BRUNS I just reread the review I wrote of “Star Wars” in 1977 for The Real Paper in Boston, and I was somewhat surprised at how much I seemed to like it. “Star Wars is a marvel, a Marvel Comics come to life, a marvelous movie” is how I began my review.
Thompson on Hollywood
For 40 years, TIFF has always been open to every kind of filmmaking, and that’s what makes it fun. Toronto audiences are famously friendly. It’s one of the reasons studios and indies love to premiere their films in this star-crazed town, where standing ovations are the rule, not the exception.
New Again: Martin Scorsese - Interview Magazine
Later this month, on its closing night, the Tribeca Film Festival will honor the 25th anniversary of Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas by screening a remastered version of the original film. After the screening, the creators and cast members, including Robert De Niro (who also co-founded the film festival), will reunite for a panel discussion, moderated by Jon Stewart, about the Academy Award-nominated classic.
Paul Thomas Anderson's
Wherever Anderson goes, his Los Angeles is haunted by cinematic ghosts: Every time he gets off the 101 freeway at Vine, he thinks of the apartment William Holden lived in in Sunset Boulevard. After he first saw John Boorman’s Point Blank, he was so obsessed with it he scoured the city to check out all the locations Boorman used. When people think of classic L.A. movies, the images have always come from the other side of the Santa Monica Mountains. No city has been more filmed.
The Game Reviews
Michael Douglas accepts an invitation to join a mysterious, exclusive "recreation activity" at the insistence of his loser brother, and is then thoroughly terrorized by the game makers. The Game is a mile-a-minute barrel ride over the edge of a waterfall, with the audience left in the dark right alongside the protagonist. Young director David Fincher plays up the suspense like an old master, but isn't quite able to compensate for a few inherent flaws with the premise.
Lorenzo's Oil
You could trust that Miller would not shoot this tale in the sentimental style of a TV movie of the week, and he hasn't. He has made an impassioned medical thriller as energized as an action movie, as emotionally and stylistically flamboyant as the operas heard on the soundtrack. [04 Jan 1993, p.50] Read More
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