Quentin Tarantino adapts Elmore Leonard’s ‘Rum Punch’ and gives career-reviving roles to Pam Grier and Robert Forster in the most grown-up movie of his first dozen years.
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Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Godfather’ trilogy
“It’s not personal. It’s strictly business.” Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Mario Puzo’s bestseller remains the great American epic of the immigrant dream turned family business. Al Pacino stars as Michael Corleone, the clean-cut white sheep and patriotic soldier boy son of New York Godfather Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando in an Oscar–winning performance), and this […]
‘A Simple Plan’ on Amazon Prime and Hulu
A Simple Plan (1998) – An endless white landscape of rolling hills and snow-blanketed forests. A lonely acoustic score (by Danny Elfman) plays in the background. A vision of rural simplicity portrayed in hushed tones. The stillness is about to shatter. Brothers Hank (Bill Paxton), an accountant at a small town feed store, and Jacob […]