Land of the Dead (2005) Review
Land of the Dead (2005) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Romero finally got a studio budget after twenty years and used it to make a film about a walled city where the rich live in a…
John Leguizamo has written and performed several one-man shows on Broadway about Latino identity and his own family, winning a special Tony for the body of that work.
Carlito’s Way, Romeo and Juliet and Summer of Sam gave him the dramatic run, and To Wong Foo cast him against type entirely.
He voices Sid across the Ice Age films, which is his most widely heard work, and has been consistently outspoken about representation in casting.
Asia ArgentoLand of the Dead (2005) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Romero finally got a studio budget after twenty years and used it to make a film about a walled city where the rich live in a…
Adrianne PalickiJohn Wick (2014) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two stuntmen directed it for twenty million dollars, put the camera far enough back to see the whole body, and built an entire criminal economy out of about…
Al PacinoCarlito's Way (1993) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. De Palma tells you Carlito dies in the first ninety seconds and then makes you hope for two and a half hours that he will not. Sean Penn…
Alex HassellViolent Night is Tommy Wirkola's 2022 American action-comedy depicting Santa Claus, played as a disillusioned former Viking warrior, trapped inside a wealthy family's Connecticut compound as mercenaries take the family hostage on Christmas Eve, leading Santa to fight back with…
Ewan McGregorBaz Luhrmann's 2001 jukebox musical. Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor in turn-of-century Paris.
John LeguizamoThe pacing is genuinely good. Some critics and marketing materials have positioned it as dark comedy, which is the wrong genre frame.
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