My patron-funded exploration of the films of Oliver Stone continues with a look at his adaptation of my old TV buddy John Ridley’s Stray Dogs entitled U-Turn.
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Nicolas Cage plays a magician who can see two minutes into the future and took his stage name after his dual love for Frankenstein and Cadillacs in 2007’s Next, an ostensible Phillip K. Dick that wastes a super-fun presence with bland romance and generic action.
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John Travolta was paid twenty MILLION dollars to deliver the worst performance of his career as a deranged criminal in Tony Scott’s underachieving remake of a 1970s masterpiece.
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Hoo boy. This one is brutal.
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John Travolta’s epic losing streak continues with 2006’s Lonely Hearts, a stinkeroo based on the same real-life story that inspired The Honeymoon Killers that wastes an amazing cast that includes James Gandolfini, Salma Hayek, Jared Leto, Scott Caan and Laura Dern.
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Nora Ephron Month concludes with an affectionate look back at 2005’s Bewitched, a muddled, excessively convoluted meta take on the 1960s sitcom that god help me, I kinda liked.
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Before she was a big time director Nora Ephron was the writer of scruffy comedies like 1989’s Cookie.
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The screenwriter of Scarface and Conan the Barbarian turns his attention to the plight of a strong-willed Vietnamese woman whose life is shaped and molded by war in the 1993 biopic Heaven and Earth, a real outlier in the filmmaker’s otherwise macho filmography.
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Revisiting a short-lived Tales from the Crypt spin-off that was just like its inspiration, only more science-fiction-oriented and also god-awful. Also, hosted by a badly computer animated sex robot for some reason.
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A can’t miss proposition—Neveldine/Taylor’s cyber-punk take on The Running Man—misses big time in one of the cranked-up duos many non-Crank duds.
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