Clockwise from top left: Grease 2 (Paramount), Jaws: The Revenge (Universal), Exorcist II: The Heretic (Warner Bros.), Batman & Robin (Warner Bros.)Image: The A.V. Club
In 1997’s Scream 2, self-proclaimed film geek Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy) rants about sequels in his college film class. “Sequels suck! By definition alone they’re inferior films,...
In 1997’s Scream 2, self-proclaimed film geek Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy) rants about sequels in his college film class. “Sequels suck! By definition alone they’re inferior films,...
- 9/8/2023
- by Robert DeSalvo
- avclub.com
Robert Redford's final performance in The Old Man & the Gun is a sweet bookend to a movie star iconography that began with the Sundance Kid.
Sometimes an actor is cast because their performance will be so immersive that they’ll vanish into the role, and other times they’re cast because there is no role, only a mark for a movie star persona to hit. But in rare instances, the movie star persona, or rather the legend around it, is the role. The performance is to embrace that mythology, if not necessarily deconstruct it. Robert Redford’s turn in The Old Man & the Gun is such a performance.
A deliberate echo of Redford’s early iconic work, Old Man acts as a bookend to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the George Roy Hill film that turned Redford into a movie star in 1969. In both pictures, Redford...
Sometimes an actor is cast because their performance will be so immersive that they’ll vanish into the role, and other times they’re cast because there is no role, only a mark for a movie star persona to hit. But in rare instances, the movie star persona, or rather the legend around it, is the role. The performance is to embrace that mythology, if not necessarily deconstruct it. Robert Redford’s turn in The Old Man & the Gun is such a performance.
A deliberate echo of Redford’s early iconic work, Old Man acts as a bookend to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the George Roy Hill film that turned Redford into a movie star in 1969. In both pictures, Redford...
- 9/27/2018
- Den of Geek
“Redford speaks!” That could be the headline for Robert Redford‘s appearance in “The Old Man and the Gun,” a la Greta Garbo‘s move into talkies, even though he’s never been quite as speechless as her. The last time Redford came to the Telluride Film Festival it was for the premiere of “All is Lost,” his all-grimacing, no-yammering tale of a man fending off death at sea. In this one, he not only talks a lot, he smiles a lot. This is supposed to be his last film before retiring, and obviously he wanted to go out glowing, not grimacing.
“Old Man and the Gun” is loosely based on a true-life “gentleman bandit” of the late 1970s who became famous for his good manners. The real bank robber, Forrest Tucker, probably was not as charming as the Sundance Kid and “The Sting’s” Johnny Hooker all rolled into one,...
“Old Man and the Gun” is loosely based on a true-life “gentleman bandit” of the late 1970s who became famous for his good manners. The real bank robber, Forrest Tucker, probably was not as charming as the Sundance Kid and “The Sting’s” Johnny Hooker all rolled into one,...
- 9/1/2018
- by Chris Willman
- Gold Derby
By Lee Pfeiffer
I've become somewhat jaded and downright cynical when it comes to the tidal wave of musical stage productions based on popular, non-musical motion pictures. So it was with a sense of wariness that I approached the world premiere engagement of "The Sting" at the Papermill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ. After all, the classic, Oscar-winning 1973 film doesn't need musical production numbers to "improve it". There was already a great deal of interest in the production prior to the relatively last-minute announcement last month that the production would star Harry Connick, Jr. That sent already healthy tickets sales into overdrive and you'd be hard-pressed to find seats for the engagement, which runs through April 29. It doesn't take long to set aside one's suspicions that this might be a lightweight rip-off of a great film. As with all Papermill shows, this one first impresses with its creative and often ingenious...
I've become somewhat jaded and downright cynical when it comes to the tidal wave of musical stage productions based on popular, non-musical motion pictures. So it was with a sense of wariness that I approached the world premiere engagement of "The Sting" at the Papermill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ. After all, the classic, Oscar-winning 1973 film doesn't need musical production numbers to "improve it". There was already a great deal of interest in the production prior to the relatively last-minute announcement last month that the production would star Harry Connick, Jr. That sent already healthy tickets sales into overdrive and you'd be hard-pressed to find seats for the engagement, which runs through April 29. It doesn't take long to set aside one's suspicions that this might be a lightweight rip-off of a great film. As with all Papermill shows, this one first impresses with its creative and often ingenious...
- 4/7/2018
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Who Gets Into The Good Place? Was Will & Grace Coda But a Dream? How Did Watson Escape? And More Qs!
We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including Chicago Fire, Lethal Weapon, The Good Place and Mom!
1 | On Emerald City, who styled Dorothy’s hair as she quickly changed into her tornado-fighting gown? Unseen attendants? And shouldn’t she have changed back into street clothes/practical boots when resuming her arduous trek?
2 | Wouldn’t it be funny if MacGyver, while stranded with Jack in the Kazakhstan forest, revealed that he didn’t know how to start a simple campfire?
3 | SNL viewers,...
1 | On Emerald City, who styled Dorothy’s hair as she quickly changed into her tornado-fighting gown? Unseen attendants? And shouldn’t she have changed back into street clothes/practical boots when resuming her arduous trek?
2 | Wouldn’t it be funny if MacGyver, while stranded with Jack in the Kazakhstan forest, revealed that he didn’t know how to start a simple campfire?
3 | SNL viewers,...
- 1/20/2017
- TVLine.com
The Con is On: What you didn't know about classic film The StingThe Con is On: What you didn't know about classic film The StingIngrid Randoja - Cineplex Magazine11/3/2016 9:46:00 Am
Sometimes on-screen chemistry can be a bad thing — it almost stopped Robert Redford and Paul Newman from starring in The Sting.
The problem was that Newman and Redford were so charismatic and likable in 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid — their first film together — that when it came to making 1973’s The Sting Universal Studios executives weren’t sure audiences would accept them as a pair of conmen who could possible betray one another.
Set in 1936 Chicago, the film casts Redford as Johnny Hooker, a newbie grifter who teams with old pro Henry Gondorff (Newman) to pull a sophisticated con on hot-tempered gangster Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw). Overflowing with plot twists and Newman and Redford’s feather-light comedic touches,...
Sometimes on-screen chemistry can be a bad thing — it almost stopped Robert Redford and Paul Newman from starring in The Sting.
The problem was that Newman and Redford were so charismatic and likable in 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid — their first film together — that when it came to making 1973’s The Sting Universal Studios executives weren’t sure audiences would accept them as a pair of conmen who could possible betray one another.
Set in 1936 Chicago, the film casts Redford as Johnny Hooker, a newbie grifter who teams with old pro Henry Gondorff (Newman) to pull a sophisticated con on hot-tempered gangster Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw). Overflowing with plot twists and Newman and Redford’s feather-light comedic touches,...
- 11/3/2016
- by Ingrid Randoja - Cineplex Magazine
- Cineplex
Twenty years ago today, Bryan Singer, the director of the “good X-Men movies” (read: all of them except X3), and writer Christopher McQuarrie (Mission: Impossible – Rogue One) rounded up five thieves for the heist of the 90’s. It all starts out with a seemingly harmless lineup, but Keyser Söze – bogeyman of the criminal underworld – has very specific (and sinister) plans for The Usual Suspects’ Dean Keaton (Gabriel Byrne), McManus (Stephen Baldwin), Fenster (Benicio del Toro), Hockney (Kevin Pollak), and Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey). Bonus points to Singer for casting Giancarlo Esposito (“Breaking Bad”’s Gus Fring), who looks ridiculously young as one of the FBI agents after Keyser Söze.
From pool sharks and grifters to tricksters, card cheats and American hustlers, here’s our rundown of the most memorable con artists in movie history.
Warning: Spoilers ahead.
Fast Eddie Felson – The Hustler (1961)
One of the finest fraudster films to ever...
From pool sharks and grifters to tricksters, card cheats and American hustlers, here’s our rundown of the most memorable con artists in movie history.
Warning: Spoilers ahead.
Fast Eddie Felson – The Hustler (1961)
One of the finest fraudster films to ever...
- 8/18/2015
- by Daniel Bettridge
- Cineplex
The top 20. The scripts by which all others are defined and to which all others are compared. Brilliant scripts can be wordy. Brilliant scripts can be confusing. Brilliant scripts can be sweeping or intimate. This section runs the gamut, ranging from first time writers to established writing vets. It only gets better from here.
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20. Easy Rider (1969)
Written by Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, and Terry Southern
They’ll talk to ya and talk to ya and talk to ya about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it’s gonna scare ‘em.
This portion’s “anybody can write a film” segment comes from 1969, with a landmark film that truly doesn’t have much weight. A road movie if there ever was one, Easy Rider follows Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) as they ride their motorcycles across the country to New Orleans for Mardi Gras.
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20. Easy Rider (1969)
Written by Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, and Terry Southern
They’ll talk to ya and talk to ya and talk to ya about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it’s gonna scare ‘em.
This portion’s “anybody can write a film” segment comes from 1969, with a landmark film that truly doesn’t have much weight. A road movie if there ever was one, Easy Rider follows Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) as they ride their motorcycles across the country to New Orleans for Mardi Gras.
- 3/12/2014
- by Joshua Gaul
- SoundOnSight
You know that Robert Redford is a badass, right? I mean, this is the man who played The Sundance Kid, Jeremiah Johnson, Johnny Hooker, and Jay Gatsby before embarking on one hell of a directorial career. Plus, he invented the damn Sundance Film Festival! Most his age would be content to sit back and reflect on their careers, but not Redford. While still working both in front and behind the camera, Redford is already filming a role in next year's Captain America: The Winter Soldier. How...
- 8/1/2013
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
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