Badlands (1973)

Dante’s Peak by Roger Donaldson (written by Leslie Bohem) is a standard-formula disaster movie. The hero, Harry Dalton (Pierce Brosnan) is a ruggedly handsome vulcanologist who (we learn over the opening credits) has lost his fiancée, a colleague, to an erupting volcano. Now he harbors his secret sorrow and treads a lone path through the…

Grosse Pointe Blank by George Armitage is a high concept movie. A hit man called Martin Blank (John Cusack) goes to his 10 year high school reunion. He tells people matter of factly what he does and they reply by saying something like: “Do you get dental with that?” or “Do you have to do…

Another fine Iranian study of the clash between innocence and experience, rural and city people, Eastern fatalism and Western-style striving.

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Yet more corruption in the LAPD makes you wonder if there are criminals in Los Angeles who aren’t wearing a badge

A very funny movie, as you would expect from Ricky Gervais, but sadly lacking in ambition