Movie Rewind

A-Ron’s Great Cinema Presents: Oscar winning Director Sydney Pollack’s 1974 crime thriller “The Yakuza”. Starring Robert Mitchum and Ken Takakura, with a screenplay written by two of cinemas best screenwriters Paul Schrader and Robert Towne. “The Yakuza” lies not only with its sharp script, expert direction, great acting from it’s two lead stars. Sydney Pollack directs a film that is …

A-Ron’s Film Rewind Presents: “Zeus! As in, father of Apollo? Mt. Olympus? Don’t mess with me or I’ll shove a lightning bolt up your…. A 12-part, 25th anniversary celebration of “Die Hard With A Vengeance”. The third film in the “Die Hard” franchise, found Bruce Willis back in the role he made all his own. Original director John McTiernan also …

A-Ron’s Film Rewind Presents: “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”. A 40th anniversary celebration of Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Based on horror master Stephen King’s 1977 novel, Kubrick’s film deviates from King’s novel and has been quoted by King as a “terrible adaptation”. Kubrick stuffed his version of “The Shining”, with so many iconic images, trying …

A-Ron’s Film Rewind Presents: “I just took a shower with a cockroach from hell. He’s in there right now doing his hair”. A 30th anniversary celebration of “Bird On A Wire”. John Badham, hot off his success of “WarGames” and “Short Circuit”, directs two of the biggest stars at the height of their careers. Filmed while John Badham’s “The Hard …

A-Ron’s Film Rewind Series Presents: “Gentlemen, we are at Defcon 3, war is imminent. This is the captain. That is all”. A 25th anniversary celebration of “Crimson Tide”. Directed by veteran action director Tony Scott, produced by frequent producing partner Jerry Bruckheimer and starring two of the best actors of the last fifty years. Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman go …

A-Ron’s Film Rewind Presents: Paul Schrader’s “Dominion Prequel To The Exorcist”. I celebrate the films 15th anniversary and the lasting impression of a movie that almost never was. When director John Frankenheimer dropped out before filming began, frequent Scorsese screenwriter Paul Schrader, took over as director. Well into production with filming almost complete, Schrader’s film was cancelled and shelved due …

A-Ron’s Film Rewind Presents: “Hey, Doc! Where you goin’ now? Back to the future?”. A 30th anniversary celebration of “Back To The Future Part III”, the rousing conclusion to a trilogy that has become one of the true pinnacles of pop culture. Filmed back to back with “Back To The Future Part II” and released only six months apart. “Part …

A-Ron’s Film Rewind Presents: “Tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take…our freedom!”. A 25th anniversary celebration of Mel Gibson’s labor of love “Braveheart”. Facing problems of financial funding causing Mel Gibson to take on multiple roles. Slammed by history buffs in it’s numerous historical inaccuracies that plagued its story, to the modern vehicle that …

A-Ron’s Film Rewind Presents: “Is This Piss Yellow?”. A 40th anniversary of “Hollywood Knights”, the 1980 inferior rip-off of “American Graffiti” and “Animal House”. Director Floyd Mutrux, “Hollywood Knights” has gained a devoted cult following for its incredible soundtrack, “Before They Were Stars” cast, it’s star vehicle; the canary yellow 1957 Chevy 210. And the fact that it has been …

A-Ron’s Film Rewind Presents: “What man is a man. Who does not make the world better?”. A 15th anniversary celebration of “Kingdom Of Heaven”. Released five years after Ridley Scott’s Oscar winning “Gladiator”. Scott returned to the historical epic with “Kingdom Of Heaven”, based on the battle of the Crusades. Originally to be released as a 3 & 1/2 hour …