MUBI has shared a trailer for director Lynne Ramsay’s upcoming adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s 2012 novel Die My Love. The thriller follows Grace (Jennifer Lawrence), a woman struggling to adapt to her new environment, the pressures of domestic life with a new baby and her absent partner Jackson (Robert Pattinson), as her sanity begins to […]
New trailer for Die My Love starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson
MUBI has released a teaser trailer for Die My Love, the upcoming thriller from director Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin). Jennifer Lawrence stars as Grace, a mother struggling to maintain her sanity, spiralling into a psychosis, after she moves to an inherited home in the country with her partner and their new […]
Blu-ray Review – North Dallas Forty (1979)
North Dallas Forty, 1979. Directed by Ted Kotcheff. Starring Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, Charles Durning, Dayle Haddon, Bo Svenson, John Matuszak, Steve Forrest, G.D. Spradlin, Dabney Coleman, Savannah Smith Boucher. SYNOPSIS: One of the greatest football movies, if not sports movies, of all time, North Dallas Forty returns to Blu-ray with a new 4K scan […]
Blu-ray Review – Tropic Thunder (2008)
Tropic Thunder, 2008. Directed by Ben Stiller. Starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Steve Coogan, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Brandon T. Jackson, Bill Hader, Nick Nolte, Matthew McConaughey, and Tom Cruise. SYNOPSIS: Kino Lorber continues releasing minor classics with a new Blu-ray of Tropic Thunder, featuring a 4K remaster supervised by director Ben […]
Blu-ray Review – Another 48 Hrs. (1990)
Another 48 Hrs., 1990. Directed by Walter Hill. Starring Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Brion James, Andrew Divoff, and Ed O’Ross. SYNOPSIS: Paramount has followed up its remastered Blu-ray release of 48 Hrs. with the same treatment for the underwhelming sequel, Another 48 Hrs., for its high-def debut. Like the first film, the sequel only has […]
Blu-ray Review – 48 Hrs. (1982)
48 Hrs., 1982. Directed by Walter Hill Starring Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O’Toole, James Remar, Sonny Landham, and David Patrick Kelly. SYNOPSIS: Eddie Murphy’s break-out hit 48 Hrs. arrives again on Blu-ray, this time sporting greatly improved image quality thanks to a new 4K remaster, along with two new bonus features. It’s a worthwhile […]
Seconds with Eddie Murphy: Beverly Hills Cop 2 and Another 48 Hours
Tom Jolliffe looks back at Eddie Murphy’s first two sequels, Beverly Hills Cop 2 and Another 48 Hours… With Eddie Murphy hitting the comeback trail recently, and venturing back to sequel territory with Coming 2 America, now’s a good time to look back at the beginnings of The Murphy Sequel. The standup comedian turned actor […]
Blu-ray Review – The Deep (1977)
The Deep, 1977. Directed by Peter Yates. Starring Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Dick Anthony Williams, Robert Shaw, Louis Gossett Jr., and Eli Wallach. SYNOPSIS: A pair of amateur divers discover a shipwreck filled with drugs and treasure whilst wearing very tight t-shirts. You can imagine the producers of The Deep all gathered round a big […]
Blu-ray Review – Extreme Prejudice (1987)
Extreme Prejudice, 1987. Directed by Walter Hill. Starring Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Maria Conchita Alonso, Michael Ironside, Rip Torn, William Forsythe, Clancy Brown, Marco Rodriguez. SYNOPSIS: A Texas Ranger ranger and a drug kingpin who used to be friends find themselves going up against one another. In Extreme Prejudice, Texas Ranger John Benteen (Nick Nolte) […]
Movie Review – Gangster Squad (2013)
Gangster Squad, 2013. Directed by Ruben Fleischer. Starring Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Sean Penn, Giovanni Ribisi, Michael Pena, Anthony Mackie, Robert Patrick, Nick Nolte and Josh Pence. SYNOPSIS: Based on a true story, Gangster Squad follows an off-the-books team of LAPD officers trying to take down a ruthless mobster, Mickey Cohen (Penn), in […]
