Movie Rewind

Terrence Malick is known to be a reclusive filmmaker, he makes no real public appearances and chooses to not do interviews or press junkets for his films. Instead letting his films do the speaking for themselves, influencing filmmakers from Alejandro González Iñárritu to Paul Thomas Anderson. To best sum up a Terrence Malick film is to say that they divide …

In October 1962, an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. The leaders of the U.S. and Soviet Union engaged in a tense, thirteen day political and military standoff over the installation of nuclear armed Soviet missiles in Cuba. The missiles, were placed just 90 miles from …

The 1980s were the heyday for the fantasy genre; seeing similar sword ‘n sorcery flicks come and go. While some were outright hits and many barely made a profit. But they have all gone on to cult favorite status including: “Dark Crystal”, “Clash Of The Titans”, “Labyrinth” and “Willow”. Of the bunch, director Ridley Scott’s “Legend” remains a particularly tricky …

A-Ron’s Film Rewind Presents: A 15th Anniversary Celebration Of “Munich”. In 2005 the legend himself Steven Spielberg, released two movies only months apart. His global box office summer blockbuster “War Of The Worlds” and his criminally under seen masterpiece “Munich”. Based on the true story of the 1972 Summer Olympics that saw the Palestinian Black September terrorist organization kill and …

A-Ron’s Film Rewind Presents: “My place is with you. I go where you go”. A 30th anniversary celebration of Kevin Costner’s seven time Oscar winner “Dances With Wolves”. Credited to be the Western that revitalized the once dead genre. Kevin Costner’s directorial debut was a style, that defied all of the rules. A big screen epic that clocked in at …

A-Ron’s Film Rewind Presents: “The name is Bond. James Bond”. A 25th anniversary celebration of “Goldeneye”. Pierce Brosnan’s first outing as the iconic British secret agent 007. Even though Brosnan was originally supposed to star as Bond during the 80’s, instead of Timothy Dalton. Brosnan eventually got his chance and proved to be double-oh perfect. Brosnan is not only the …

From Hollywood Disaster To An American Masterpiece It’s 1978 and writer/director Michael Cimino was beginning to have it all. Having just won critical and fan praise, and winning five Oscars for his Vietnam masterpiece “The Deer Hunter”. It’s easy to see why Cimino would be trusted by any major studio, with head lining an even more ambitious film as his …

A-Ron’s Film Rewind Presents: The 15th anniversary celebration of “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”. Shane Black was one of Hollywood’s most in-demand screenwriters after selling his script to Warner Bros. for 1987’s “Lethal Weapon”. He wrote some of the biggest action film scripts in the 80’s and 90’s, before his flame burned out and Black struggled to find work as a …

It’s a usual tradition for cinephiles to have a 31 day horror movie marathon every October in celebration of Halloween. So what better way to celebrate Halloween then by watching my favorite and the greatest horror film ever made. I’m of course referring to William Friedkin’s 1973 masterpiece “The Exorcist”. Here I dive into reasons why it’s cinemas finest horror …

A-Ron’s Film Rewind Presents: “Even the most promising clues usually only lead to others”. A 25th anniversary celebration of one of the darkest, creepiest and most brilliant serial killer pictures in American film history. David Fincher’s seminal psychological thriller “Se7en” written by Andrew Kevin Walker who had such a depressing time living in New York that he had written the …