Tag: Hollywood (Page 2)
1990sGet Shorty (1995)
1995 Barry Sonnenfeld crime comedy adapting Elmore Leonard. Travolta as Miami loan shark who becomes a Hollywood producer.
1990sBroken Arrow (1996)
1996 John Woo action with Travolta as rogue Air Force pilot who steals nuclear weapons. The film depicts Air Force pilot Vic Deakins who hijacks nuclear weapons during a stealth bomber training flight.
1990sFace/Off (1997)
1997 John Woo action with Travolta and Nicolas Cage swapping faces as cop and terrorist. Face/Off is John Woo's 1997 American action film and one of the principal entries in both Woo's filmography and the broader 1990s American action canon.
1950sAnatomy of a Murder (1959)
1959 Otto Preminger courtroom drama with James Stewart as small-town Michigan lawyer defending an Army officer charged with murder. Anatomy of a Murder is Otto Preminger's 1959 American courtroom drama adapting Robert Traver's 1958 novel.
2000sMulholland Drive (2001)
Lynch's 2001 Hollywood nightmare. Started as a TV pilot, became a feature.
1980sPolice Story (1985)
Jackie Chan's 1985 Hong Kong action film. He directed, choreographed, and did his own stunts.
1950sSunset Boulevard (1950)
Wilder's 1950 Hollywood gothic. Sunset Boulevard is the Billy Wilder film noir that became Hollywood's most lacerating film about itself.
ComedyRush Hour (1998, 2001, 2007)
Rush Hour is the buddy cop trilogy that made Jackie Chan a Hollywood leading man and Chris Tucker an A-list comedy actor for a brief window of his career. Brett Ratner directed all three films.
1940sMighty Joe Young (1949)
Mighty Joe Young is the film where Ray Harryhausen learned what he would spend the rest of his career doing. Willis O'Brien, the stop-motion pioneer who had created King Kong in 1933, was the credited animator.
2000sRomeo Must Die (2000) Review
Romeo Must Die is one of the substantial American martial arts productions of the early 2000s and one of Jet Li's substantial Hollywood productions follow. Jet Li had been working substantially in Hong Kong cinema across multiple decades before his…
Ancient EgyptThe Mummy Trilogy (1999-2008) Review
The Mummy trilogy is one of the most enjoyable adventure franchises of the late 1990s and 2000s and one of the more successful examples of what mainstream. Stephen Sommers wrote and directed the first two films.