Dead Man Johnny Depp has built such a varied resume in a relatively short time that it’s easy to overlook certain films that he did, even for hardcore fans of his, like this 1995 pseudo-Western directed by indy icon Jim Jarmusch and featuring a fantastic supporting cast. Depp plays William Blake, a mild-mannered accountant who […]
Dead Pool In many ways, Dirty Harry was really the original 80s movie cop (even in the 70s) as despite the fact that the movies themselves always tried to have a social undertone throughout, Harry himself was always spot on by having a nice series of one liners, the ability to outfight and outgun the […]
Dead Zone At his core, Stephen King is the living epitome of a hack horror writer, taking seemingly any random idea that comes into his head (good or bad) and always churning out a 400+ page novel from it. Even moreso, King’s stories more than literally any of the other horror writers combined almost always […]
Deadpool The glut of superhero themed movies (in particular the endless Avengers films which also require multiple stand alone films for nearly ALL of their main characters on top of the endless group sequels) has virtually come to dominate the American cinema market to the point that non comic book movies are barely getting made […]
Death Proof This homage to b-grade horror movies of the 70s is certainly not the peak of Quentin Tarantino’s work, but there’s still a lot to be savored nonetheless. The grainy imagery, obtrusive jump cuts, and obvious bad editing may put many modern-day moviegoers off, but it goes to serve that Tarantino knows what he’s […]
Death Race 2000 Creative, low budget, anything goes independent filmmaking is a lost art form that has gone out of style in recent years with the proliferation of whiny “personal” pieces and boring tripe made by those with not a smidgen of inspiration. A far cry from the glory days of Roger Corman, the genius […]
Death Wish I’ve often felt that the large, metropolitan cities in our country are perhaps the WORST place to take up residence in, being concrete jungles of urban decay and moreso, rampant crime that is simply too difficult for the police to control given the unusually high concentration of people living within. This 1974 groundbreaker […]
Deathtrap Christopher Reeve was known to have an unfortunate tendency in his non Superman movie acting roles to not only be continuously upstaged by one or more of his costars, but also to never quite shake off the stigma that audiences would forever identify him with being The Man Of Steel in the definitive sense, […]
Defending Your Life Albert Brooks is certainly one of the most underrated of comic writer / director / actors, going back to his hilarious short films back in the early days of Saturday Night Live, and this 1991 concoction is pretty much his best work: Brooks plays a yuppie killed in a head-on collision with […]
Deliverance Well, this is certainly a movie that was grossly overrated at the time of its original release (Best Picture nominee? Really??), but what it really is or ever was is a solid exploitation flick with an A-cast and crew. The opening scenes are promising, particularly the legendary “Dueling Banjos” bit between Ronny Cox and […]