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Striking Distance (1993)

6.4 (5 Ratings) Rate It

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Sgt. Tom Hardy (Bruce Willis) denounces his partner, Jimmy Detillo (Robert Pastorelli), for brutally...

The Drop (2014)

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Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) tends bar in his cousin's pub and looks the other way when local mobsters...

Susie Bright recommended Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) in Movies (curated)

Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

1971 | Classics, Drama

7.5

(2 Ratings)

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"Color me gone, baby. I wouldn’t have seen this movie at twelve. I wouldn’t have understood anyone who didn’t have a mission, a point. But at nineteen, my face was gravel from “points.” I was ready for a whole lot of steel nothing, an empty road at high speeds, an existential needle guiding my arms. I knew little or nothing about automobiles, but I fell in love with this road trip, and made a couple myself, LA to Detroit, Tijuana to Spokane, no sleep, all little white pills and mud coffee. I never saw anyone as beautiful as James Taylor and Dennis Wilson passing me on the left, but I was ready to follow."

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Lee KM Pallatina (951 KP) rated Big Trouble in Little China (1986) in Movies

Jun 18, 2019

Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

1986 | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

8.6

(51 Ratings)

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Escape from china town

Big Trouble in Little China is a 1986 martial arts comedy movie.
the story follows Jack Burton, a man who agrees to help his friend Wang Chi rescue his green-eyed fiancée from bandits in San Francisco's Chinatown. Their mission leads them to a mysterious underworld beneath Chinatown, where they face an ancient sorcerer named Lo Pan, who requires a woman with green eyes to marry him in order to release him from a centuries-old curse.

Directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun and James Hong

Great storyline, cheesy old school graphics and action, brilliant characters and cast.
Absolute classic.

release date: July 2, 1986
Running time: 99 minutes

Fun fact:

The project fulfilled Carpenter's long-standing desire to make a martial arts movie.

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Simon Gray: Plays: Otherwise Engaged; Dog Days; Molly; Plaintiff and Defendants; Two Sundays; Pig in a Poke; Man in a Side Car: Volume 2:

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'A superbly written play, a funny play, an agonising play. It is, moreover, a play of truth and...

Steve Gunn recommended Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) in Movies (curated)

Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

1971 | Classics, Drama

7.5

(2 Ratings)

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"First of all, how can you go wrong with a cast that includes Dennis Wilson, James Taylor, Harry Dean Stanton, Warren Oates, and of course Laurie Bird? I often imagine how great it would be to go back in time and see this film in some half-empty cinema when it opened. I discovered this film while working at the video store, when there was renewed interest in it in the late nineties. I even went so far as to reach into my video-store earnings and buy the deluxe edition, which came in a tin can with a comprehensive book. Well worth it for the unseen photos. The beginning scene, with its utter lack of dialogue, has to be one of my favorite pieces of cinema. Much of the acting feels improvised, which adds to the lost, directionless quality."

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