Green Book (2018) Review
Green Book (2018) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two excellent performances inside a road film about a Black concert pianist and his white driver on a 1962 southern tour, which beat Roma for Best Picture and…
Filming Location: Louisiana
Films in this library shot in Louisiana, a state whose incentives and geography drew substantial production. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
LouisianaTrue Detective – “The Long Bright Dark” (S1E1, 2014) Review
True Detective's pilot rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two detectives are interviewed in 2012 about a case from 1995, and the gap between what they say and what the audience is shown is the entire architecture.…
ArizonaThe Magnificent Seven (2016) Review
The Magnificent Seven (2016) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Antoine Fuqua takes the same structure, casts it the way the American West really looked, and gives the villain a coherent economic argument. The last forty minutes…
ArizonaEasy Rider (1969) Review
Easy Rider (1969) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. It invented the modern road movie and killed the counterculture's mythology in the same hundred minutes. The film is loose, self-indulgent and occasionally incoherent, and the ending is…
LouisianaRenfield (2023)
Nicolas Cage's gloriously unhinged Dracula anchors a comedy about escaping a toxic boss, undercut by an overstuffed plot. Reframe Dracula's servant Renfield as a man in a toxic codependent relationship with his narcissistic boss, and play it as a workplace…
LouisianaSinners (2025)
Ryan Coogler's Jim Crow-era vampire film uses the genre to explore Black art and cultural memory. It establishes the stakes of everything that follows.
LouisianaDead Man Walking (1995)
Tim Robbins' 1995 death row drama. Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon Best Actress.
CaliforniaInterview with the Vampire (1994)
Neil Jordan's 1994 Anne Rice adaptation. Cruise as Lestat, Pitt as Louis.
LouisianaJack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)
2016 sequel with Tom Cruise. Reacher returns to clear an army officer framed for espionage and uncovers deeper conspiracy.
LouisianaLive and Let Die (1973)
1973 Guy Hamilton Bond film with Roger Moore's debut. Voodoo, blaxploitation tropes, Jane Seymour as Solitaire.
LouisianaJFK (1991)
1991 Oliver Stone conspiracy drama with Kevin Costner as New Orleans DA Jim Garrison prosecuting Clay Shaw for the Kennedy assassination. JFK is Oliver Stone's 1991 American historical drama.
LouisianaGeostorm (2017)
2017 Dean Devlin disaster film with Gerard Butler battling weather-controlling satellites that go rogue. Geostorm is Dean Devlin's 2017 American disaster film.