Johnny Handsome

8th January 2016 @matcoop 0

There’s a line between Walter Hill, Sam Peckinpah and Don Siegel, all of whom I’ve blogged about before. Don started out making montages for films […]

State of Grace

4th December 2015 @matcoop 0

Phil Joanu’s State of Grace was released at the same time as Goodfellas. Goodfellas is about the mafia (mainly Italian descent gangsters). State of Grace […]

Dagon

3rd December 2015 @matcoop 0

Dagon by Stuart Gordon is an odd one. It’s based on the HP Lovecraft short story A Shadow over Innsmouth (which is a personal obsession […]

Rounders

14th November 2015 @matcoop 0

I love Rounders, the script had been around for a while and apparently turned down by every studio that read it at least once. It’s […]

Mad Men

7th November 2015 @matcoop 0

Yep, it’s not a film, and it’s all the better for it. Mad Men is about the guys and gals who worked in the advertising […]

Blue Collar

24th October 2015 @matcoop 0

Paul Shrader’s Blue Collar is on the few American films about real life working people. Set in Detroit in the 1970s the film follows three […]

Midnight Run

16th October 2015 @matcoop 0

The buddy movie was big thing back in the 80s and 90s. Good buddy movies have also sprinkled in with various other film genres throughout […]

Way of the Dragon

10th October 2015 @matcoop 0

Yes, a guilty pleasure. Way of the Dragon is my favourite Bruce Lee film. It’s also a film Bruce wrote and directed himself. Set in […]

Rumblefish

3rd October 2015 @matcoop 0

We all love Francis, and I think his career is one of the closest to Welles’ in the modern day. Yet, Welles never gave up […]

McCabe and Mrs. Miller

26th September 2015 @matcoop 0

We’re coming up to October 2015, winter is coming. One of the great films to watch in winter is Robert Altman’s McCabe and Mrs.Miller. It’s […]