Quadrophenia Based off The Who’s OTHER rock opera from the early 70s, director Franc Roddam helmed this 1979 release with an overall story made up entirely from whole cloth yet still retaining the spirit of the original album. Music fans should be aware of two things going in: the film is NOT wall to wall […]
Quantum Of Solace There’s no doubt that 2008’s direct sequel to Casino Royale doesn’t short the viewer in the pure action department. It opens with a wild car chase and is shortly followed up by an exhaustive foot chase that tries but fails to match the one that opened Royale. The plot concerns Bond getting […]
Quick And The Dead (Louis L’Amour Version) Generic Westerns, as is any generic genre piece, can often be a tough slog to get through, trotting out the same old story conventions, the same old clichés, and the same old character types for our increasingly numb enjoyment. Thus is the case with this 1987 Made For […]
Quick And The Dead Shortly after completing his fabled Evil Dead Trilogy, Sam Raimi decided to follow that up with a Western in 1995 and coming from a demented cinematic genius like Raimi, what a Western it was! It turned out to not only be the most self aware and self referencial Western perhaps ever […]
Raging Bull Before the ignoble advancement of corrupt promoters and the lack of having any more big star names (can anyone even name the HEAVYWEIGHT Champion Of The World right now? Anyone?), the sport of boxing was truly the sport of kings, the original one on one combat sport going back over 100 years in […]
Raiders Of The Lost Ark In the early days of cinema, the adventure serial was just one part of what added up to a full afternoon at the movies for most families, with the full program that they were treated to including the main feature, newsreels, various cartoons and short subjects along with the serial […]
Raising Arizona The frenetic genius of The Coen Brothers’ style of filmmaking has been well documented in many places, whether the film be good or bad, with only one time (Big Lebowski) did they achieve a true work of transcendent, timeless brilliance, but this 1987 release during their so called “formative” years is probably the […]
Raising Cain Brian De Palma has spent his entire career making classic movies from the realms of horror, action and of course, suspense filled homages to Alfred Hitchcock, a trait of his that grew so strong many compared him favorably as being the heir apparent of Hitchcock’s style of filmmaking. Several other great (non Hitchcock […]
Rambo Seeing Stallone return to playing one of his most iconic characters ever certainly arouses the old curiosity, and the first issue off the bat is his age, which has been much talked about: Thankfully, the older, craggier Rambo suits the character fine, since Rambo was always meant to be somewhat of a grotesque figure. […]
