MPAA Rating: R/ Genre: Horror/ Stars: Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone, Belinda Balaski, Kevin McCarthy, John Carradine, Slim Pickens, Elisabeth Brooks, Robert Picardo, Margie Impert, Noble Willingham, Dick Miller, James Murtaugh, Jim McKrell/ Runtime: 91 minutes I feel if there ever was a crucial myth that…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Videodrome “83”
MPAA Rating: R/ Genre: Sci-Fi Horror/ Stars: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky, Leslie Carlson, Jack Creley, Lynne Gorman, Julie Khaner, David Bolt, Reiner Schwarz, Lally Cadeau, King Cosmos/ Runtime: 89 minutes I feel it must be said that if ever there was a director who knows how…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Dawn of the Dead “78”
MPAA Rating: NR/Genre: Horror/ Stars: David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger, Gaylen Ross, David Crawford, David Early, Richard France, Howard Smith, Daniel Dietrich/ Runtime: 127 minutes When George A. Romero’s nil-for-a-budget nightmare on film masterpiece that is Night of the Living Dead first struck fear into the hearts of audiences…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Full Metal Jacket
MPAA Rating: R/ Genre: War/ Stars: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D’Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood, Arliss Howard, Kevyn Major Howard, Ed O’Ross/ Runtime: 116 minutes Mr. Stanley Kubrick was not a prolific director. This is because in 71 years of being a part of the planet Earth he…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: They Shall Not Grow Old
MPAA Rating: R/ Genre: Documentary/ Runtime: 99 or 129 minutes (depending on which cut of the film you are watching) I feel it is safe to say that the genre of motion picture known as the war documentary really truly has acquired a little hint of an image as a…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: IT: Chapter 2
MPAA Rating: R/ Genre: Horror/ Stars: Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Martell, Sophia Lillis, Jack Dylan Grazer, Finn Wolfhard, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Chosen Jacobs, Wyatt Oleff, Teach Grant, Xavier Dolan, Taylor Frey/ Runtime: 169 minutes When it came…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Dunkirk “2017”
MPAA Rating: PG-13/ Genre: War/ Stars: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D’Arcy, Barry Keoghan, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy/ Runtime: 106 minutes I wouldn’t have thought you could make a grand-scale war film with minimal ingredients at play, but that was…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Sinister “2012”
MPAA Rating: R/ Genre: Horror/ Stars: Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, Fred Dalton Thompson, James Ransone, Clare Foley, Michael Hall D’Addario, Vincent D’Onofrio/ Runtime: 110 minutes I feel it must be said that here lately in the world of cinema that the genre known as horror is finding itself needing to…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: The Beguiled “2017”
MPAA Rating: R/ Genre: Drama Thriller/ Stars: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, Oona Laurence, Angourie Rice, Addison Riecke/ Runtime: 94 minutes I feel it must be said that the very concept of the remake has an extremely horrible reputation in the world of movie making, although this…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Ant-Man and the Wasp “2018”
MPAA Rating: PG-13/ Genre: Superhero/ Stars: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Peña, Walton Goggins, Bobby Cannavale, Judy Greer, Tip “T.I.” Harris, David Dastmalchian, Hannah John-Kamen, Abby Ryder Fortson, Randall Park, Michelle Pfeiffer, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Douglas/ Runtime: 118 minutes I think it is safe to say that following the release…
