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Actor: Stephen Lang

Stephen Lang played Colonel Quaritch in Avatar and returned for the sequel despite the character’s death, and the role gave him an unexpected franchise at fifty-seven.

Don’t Breathe gives him a blind veteran who is initially the victim and progressively something much worse, played almost entirely without dialogue. Gettysburg and Gods and Generals gave him two different Confederate generals, and he has performed a one-man show about Medal of Honor recipients for years.

Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in a black coat and hat, standing in the dusty streets of Tombstone, Arizona during the 1880s.Bill Paxton

Tombstone (1993) Review

Tombstone (1993) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The credited writer was fired a month into shooting, the credited director may not have directed it, and the result is the most quotable Western ever made. Val Kilmer…

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Avatar (2009) film posterGiovanni Ribisi

Avatar (2009) Review

Avatar is a white savior film wearing the costume of environmental progressivism, and the combination is more offensive than either element alone. The Na'vi, despite everything that makes them extraordinary, apparently needed Jake Sully.

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