Tag: American Decay (Page 16)

1990s

Payback (1999)

Brian Helgeland's 1999 Mel Gibson crime thriller. Maria Bello plays Rosie, a prostitute and former Porter associate.

2000s

Lord of War (2005)

Andrew Niccol's 2005 Nicolas Cage international arms trade drama. Among the most accomplished commercial cinema examinations of the industry.

2000s

American Gangster (2007)

Ridley Scott's 2007 Frank Lucas biopic. Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe in parallel protagonist tracks.

1990s

Mad City (1997)

Costa-Gavras's 1997 media satire. Dustin Hoffman and John Travolta.

2010s

Dredd (2012)

Dredd is the rare comic book adaptation that fully understood its source material. Alex Garland wrote, between his collaborations.

1990s

Dean Devlin co-wrote with Emmerich. The film established Will Smith as the dominant summer blockbuster star of the late 1990s, set up Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin's career-long partnership producing disaster spectacles, and refined the destruction-of-iconic-landmarks visual template that subsequent…

1980s

Escape from New York (1981)

Escape from New York is John Carpenter's dystopian action film and one of the foundational works of 1980s post-apocalyptic cinema. Carpenter directed and co-wrote with Nick Castle.

American Decay

RoboCop (1987, 1990, 1993, 2014)

RoboCop is the satirical action franchise that established the cybernetic-cop subgenre and one of the most accomplished critiques of late-1980s corporate American culture. Paul Verhoeven directed the 1987 original.

2000s

Yes Man (2008)

Carrey plays Carl Allen, a Bank of America loan officer in Los Angeles whose life has shrunk into avoidance after his divorce. The premise is the structure.

2010s

Bad Teacher (2011)

Bad Teacher is the R-rated comedy where Cameron Diaz plays a public middle school teacher who hates her students. Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky wrote, both veterans of the American version of The Office.