Posts Tagged ‘tom cruise’
Sunday, February 21st, 2010

After an incident on the carrier Maverick [Tom Cruise] and Goose [Anthony Edwards] have become the candidate for Top Gun, a school for the best of the best fighter pilots to make them better. We are then treated to eight weeks of training sessions and classes about flying fighter planes in the 80s. (more…)
Tags: 1001 films, action, Anthony Edwards, Drama, Kelly McGillis, Romance, tom cruise, Tony Scott, Top Gun, Val Kilmer
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Monday, December 28th, 2009

I decided to join a film review club called The 1001 Movies You Must See Club to help make me watch better movies. What they do is every month recommend four movies everyone should see and review on their various blogs. These films are taken from a book entitled 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. Now I know I’ve seen some of these films but not all of them. So enjoy as I revisit some and discover classics I probably would never see without this little nudge in the right direction.
Where do I start in this world that Paul Thomas Anderson has made for us? He takes us through the lives of about ten different people who are all interconnected, in some way or another, over the following 24 hours and all are in Los Angeles. (more…)
Tags: 1001 films, Drama, Jason Robards, john c reilly, Jon Brion, Julianne Moore, Magnolia, Movie Review, Paul Thomas Anderson, Phillip Baker Hall, phillip seymour hoffman, tom cruise, William H. Macy
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Saturday, October 24th, 2009

This week our hosts decide to discuss Katheryn Bigelow’s 1987 vampire flick, Near Dark, and also explain themselves for why they need to explain themselves. (more…)

The Unnamed Movie Podcast [Episode 31 - Near Dark] [98:45m]:
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Tags: 30 Rock, 3D, Advent Children, American Psycho, Angelina Jolie, Antichrist, Broken Embraces, Chris Pine, Christian Bale, Couples Retreat, Endgame, Fired Up, Fringe, Gucci, how high, Jack Ryan, Jason Stackhouse, Kathryn Bigelow, Law Abiding Citizen, Lie To Me, Near Dark, oldboy, Pedro Almodovar, Penelope Cruz, Podcast, Ridley Scott, tom cruise, toy story, True Legend, Veronica Mars, What Women Want
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg [Tom Cruise] has come to the conclusion that to serve Germany and to serve Hitler [David Bamber] is two completely different things. After being injured in Africa Stauffenberg is recruited by General Friedrich Olbricht [Bill Nighy] to become a part of the coup and overthrow Hitler so to end the war and save Germany.
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Tags: Bill Nighy, Bryan Singer, David Bamber, Drama, Eddie Izzard, Kenneth Branagh, Movie Review, tom cruise, Tom Wilkinson, Valkyrie
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008

This is the story of Four Leaf Tayback [Nick Nolte] in the Vietnam war being adapted from the published novel into a feature length film. The filming of this movie hits many financial and structural problems as the director, Damien Cockburn [Steve Coogan], is young and inexperienced in managing a big budget film, and the actors are all huge stars attempting to share the screen.
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Tags: Ben Stiller, Comedy, jack black, nick nolte, retard, robert downey jr., steve coogan, tom cruise, Tropic Thunder, war
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