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 […]
Demons A film that can quickly be summed up as “Evil Dead In A Movie Theater”, this Italian horror classic (filmed in Berlin) from 1985, directed by Lamberto Bava and produced by the legendary Dario Argento, manages to combine scares, gore, suspense, and atmosphere in a way not seen much in European cinema. A mysterious […]
Demons 2 In making this quick sequel to his seminal Italian horror classic, Lamberto Bava makes a few missteps here, but still does enough to satisfy fans of the original. Among the flaws is the film seems to take FOREVER to get going, taking place this time in an apartment complex rather than a movie […]
Departed Given that he (along with Francis Ford Coppola and his Godfather Trilogy) is probably best known as THE guy that came to shape and define the modern day gangster movie, it’s amazing to see how a guy like Martin Scorsese, a guy with such classics under his belt as Mean Streets, Goodfellas, and Casino, […]
Desperado Robert Rodriguez had literally made cinematic history with the 1992 release of El Mariachi, made on a budget of merely $2000 which went on to be deemed “good enough” to be shown at both film festivals and theatrical engagements. Good enough certainly wasn’t enough to describe it though, as it was an action packed […]
Destroyer There might be no sadder story in the history of The NFL (or professional sports for that matter) than that of Lyle Alzado, the monstrously imposing defensive end for The Los Angeles Raiders who won a Super Bowl ring, earned countless accolades for his play on the field and most importantly, struck real, legitimate […]
Detroit Rock City The history of rock n roll was considered to be a glorious period for at least the first 30 years since the genre’s inception, spawning various subgenres and the bands who rocked out under each one in their own style, and no genre was probably more beloved than that of heavy metal […]