By John H. Foote (****) Mickey Rourke was among the major new actors on the rise in the eighties, along with Sean Penn, Eric Roberts and Tom Cruise. Rourke had a sweet, disarming smile and spoke in a soft, near whisper that hid a real dangerous presence. He could quickly turn dark; the smile could…
By John H. Foote (****) Lou (Burt Lancaster) talks a big game. He can do it because there is no one really around to refute his tall tales about being a big shot gangster in Atlantic City years before. Truth be known he was nothing more than a numbers runner for the mob, but having…
By Nick Maylor On this episode of our podcast, John and I discuss the career of Denzel Washington. Check out our official YouTube channel for all of our podcast episodes. Nick MaylorNick is an actor/writer/comedian/musician from Hamilton, ON Canada. Having been a film nut since the early days of his life, Nick has had an…
By John H. Foote (****) “Everybody dies … but I’m going to die today – Ryan (Sandra Bullock) in Gravity Sandra Bullock won the Academy Award for her fine performance in the otherwise predictable and sappy The Blind Side (2009) which has never sat well with me. Had she not won for that film, she…
By John H. Foote (***) It was New Year’s Eve 1978, and my lady and I were not hard drinking party goers. No, our night out would be a hearty Chinese dinner and a movie. We popped in to wish a beloved school teacher a Happy New Year and then headed to the movies. All…
By John H. Foote Time is a very strange thing in our minds is it not? I often wonder if it is entirely possible to even comprehend. I look at my daughters now 28 and 20 and wonder how the years slipped by so fast, where did they go? There are things from my past…
By Nick Maylor On this episode, John and I discuss the best films of the 1990s. Check out our official YouTube channel for all of our podcast episodes. Nick MaylorNick is an actor/writer/comedian/musician from Hamilton, ON Canada. Having been a film nut since the early days of his life, Nick has had an obsession with…
By John H. Foote (****) Opening night of The Shining, 40 years ago this weekend in 1980. My brother and I had been fans of the book and both appreciated Stanley Kubrick, though the big draw here for both of us was Jack Nicholson. My girlfriend of the time, Steve and I headed out to…
By John H. Foote (****) Once upon a time, 40 years ago in a theatre in Oshawa, in a galaxy far, far away, sat 500 people. They were there to see the single most anticipated film of the year, the first sequel to Star Wars (1977) entitled The Empire Strikes Back. I was among that…
By Nick Maylor On this episode, John, Alan and myself talk about the cinema of the 1980s. Check out our official YouTube channel for all of our podcast episodes. Nick MaylorNick is an actor/writer/comedian/musician from Hamilton, ON Canada. Having been a film nut since the early days of his life, Nick has had an obsession…