Dogs Of War Coming off his star making, Oscar winning performance in 1978’s The Deer Hunter, Christopher Walken for a few years after was considered to be the next great acting sensation of the 20th century and with his Supporting Actor Oscar in the bag, he proceeded to field a number of leading roles, some […]
Dolemite The era of “blaxploitation” films was both a fascinating and yet a sordid one as well, with a number of African American actors at that time including Jim Brown, Richard Roundtree, Isaac Hayes and Fred Williamson all competing amongst themselves as to who could be the “blackest” action movie star, the qualifications being to […]
Domino You know it’s a sad sign of moviemaking when you get to a scene here where several of the main characters suddenly start tripping on mescaline, but the style of the film doesn’t change a bit because that’s the way the movie’s been riding all along. That’s what we get here from director Tony […]
Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut With this Director’s Cut, Richard Kelly’s film has been transformed from a convoluted, confusing mess into an epic, challenging masterpiece. Character development is a LOT better rounded, and the performances, particularly Jake Gyllenhal’s, feel much more fleshed out. Questions still remain for the viewer, though one feels like they have […]
Donovan’s Reef Legendary director John Ford and legendary star John Wayne made a good number of quality films together, and this effort from 1963 would be the last of their collaborations, kind of a light-hearted affair set in a tropical paradise that has more relation to an Elvis movie (minus the singing) than any of […]
Dr. No Sometimes a reviewer has to ask themselves, is something that was fresh and new and exciting in 1962 still retain the same quality today, when so many elements have since lent themselves to the level of cliché and parody? That issue comes into play with this, the first ever James Bond movie, and […]
Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb Stanley Kubrick (as we know) was not only a guy who made movies in several different genres, but wound up often succeeding at making the BEST movie of all time in that particular genre, and this 1964 effort still stands today as […]
Dracula ’79 In many cases, doing an adaptation of a classic story or play can subject one to all sorts of scrutiny, much moreso if the adaptation is done as a major motion picture in any given era which thus makes it the “definitive” version for that generation (and preempts any other major attempt for […]
