The Thin Red Line (1998)
Jeez, war films in 1998 took over the Oscars. With an all-star cast — featuring Sean Penn, George Clooney, Nick Nolte and Adrien Brody — director Terrence Malick’s lyrical and beautiful retelling of...
View Article48 Hrs. (1983)
Eddie Murphy’s big-screen debut makes me miss him even more. Detective Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) is forced to do the unbearable in order to catch a pair of escaped cop killers: He temporarily paroles...
View ArticleTropic Thunder (2008)
Its funny, even the 4th time around. This combat film send-up from director-star Ben Stiller tracks a group of actors who are forced to become real-life soldiers when they’re abandoned in the jungles...
View ArticleThe Prince of Tides (1991)
Could Streisand really save your life? A Southern schoolteacher, Nick Nolte travels to New York City and unloads a lifetime of horrific, repressed memories to a psychiatrist (Barbra Streisand) in order...
View ArticleHulk (2003)
He’s angry….and boring. Researcher Dr. Bruce Banner’s (Eric Bana) failed experiments cause him to mutate into a powerful and savage green-skinned hulk when he loses control of his emotions. And the...
View ArticleWarrior (2011)
Before he destroys Batman, Tom Hardy gets to destroy his brother. Tom Conlon (Tom Hardy) and older brother Brendan (Joel Edgerton) have pursued separate lives, but when Tom returns home to ask his...
View ArticleArthur (2011)
Who says you don’t need another story about a drunk rich dude in the 21st century? Irresponsible charmer Arthur Bach (Russell Brand) has always relied on two things to get by: his limitless fortune and...
View ArticleHotel Rwanda (2004)
Who said Africans don’t have their own Schindler’s List? The movie is about Paul Ruseabagina (Don Cheadle), a man who works at his hotel during the violent war between Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda. When...
View ArticleGangster Squad (2013)
The most violent game of Cops and Robbers I’ve ever seen played. Sean Penn plays mob king Mickey Cohen, a ruthless gangster who runs the entire city of Los Angeles, including the cops and politicians...
View ArticleParker (2013)
Would have been more interesting if he had a ticker on his heart. Way more interesting, actually. Parker (Jason Statham) is a professional thief, who doesn’t steal from the poor or hurt innocent...
View ArticleThe Company You Keep (2013)
People get old. Even hippies. Jim Grant (Robert Redford) is living the life that most men of his age should. He has a job, he has a kid, he has responsibility, and he seems to have no problems. That...
View ArticleNoah (2014)
Thought he’d need a bigger boat. Guess not. I don’t think I really need to state what this movie is about, but in case those of you out there have either been living under a rock for the past one...
View ArticleHateship Loveship (2014)
Nothing stranger than a gal who doesn’t mind cleaning up beds after people soil them. Quiet, reserved and slightly off-kilter middle-aged caretaker Johanna (Kristen Wiig) has to move when her last...
View ArticleA Walk in the Woods (2015)
The more miles, the crankier they get. Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) is an author who’s feeling like he hasn’t made much of his life recently. Sure, he’s been published an awful-lot, has a lovely wife...
View ArticleThe Ridiculous 6 (2015)
At least Tarantino has a Western coming out. In the old West, a man by the name of Tommy Stockburn (Adam Sandler) is raised by Native Americans, where everyone calls him “White Knife”. While he doesn’t...
View ArticleThe Thin Red Line (1998)
The war is a jungle. In this case, literally. It’s slap dab in the middle of WWII, or 1942 to be exact, and needless to say, a lot of lives are being lost. Bus most importantly, a lot of soldier’s...
View ArticleNew York Stories (1989)
Now that I think about it, New York’s kind of lame. New York is chock full of interesting little lives and stories that are just waiting to be heard and seen. One concerns a passionate, but confused...
View ArticleU-Turn (1997)
Next time, wait for the rest stop. While on the road to who knows where, Bobby (Sean Penn) has a bit of car trouble and has to pull over into the nearest gas-station/mechanic he can find. Of course,...
View ArticleCape Fear (1991)
Criminals never forget. When attorney Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) knowingly withholds evidence that would acquit violent sex offender Max Cady (Robert De Niro) of rape charges, Max spends the next 14 years...
View ArticleExtreme Prejudice (1987)
It’s the small towns you’ve got to worry about the most. Jack Benteen (Nick Nolte) is a Texas Ranger who has taken a very different path than his childhood buddy, Cash Bailey (Powers Boothe), a...
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