MPAA Rating: R/ Genre: Action-Thriller/ Stars: John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Delroy Lindo, Frank Whaley, Bob Gunton, Howie Long, Jack Thompson, Kurtwood Smith, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Daniel von Bargen/ Runtime: 108 minutes Four years before he decided to engage in cruise control and helm Mission: Impossible 2, we got to…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: The Bridge on the River Kwai
MPAA Rating: PG/ Genre: War Drama/ Stars: William Holden, Sir Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Geoffrey Horne, André Morell, Peter Williams, John Boxer, Percy Herbert, Harold Goodwin/ Runtime: 161 minutes I feel like if you, my fellow movie lover ever were to think of what or who…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Children of the Corn “84”
MPAA Rating: R/ Genre: Horror/ Stars: Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, R.G. Armstrong, John Franklin, Courtney Gains, Robby Kiger, Anne Marie McEvoy, Julie Maddalena, Jonas Marlowe, John Philbin/ Runtime: 92 minutes sigh well here we are again movie goers with yet another adaptation of work done by one of Horror literature’s…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Jaws
MPAA Rating: PG/ Genre: Thriller/ Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gray, Murray Hamilton, Carl Gottlieb, Jeffrey Kramer, Susan Backlinie, Lee Fierro/ Runtime: 124 minutes Forty-five years ago, wow how time truly has flown, a twenty-six-year-old, and up and coming in the land of movie magic director by…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Collateral Damage “02”
MPAA Rating: R/ Genre: Action-Thriller/ Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elias Koteas, Francesca Neri, Cliff Curtis, John Leguizamo, John Turturro, Lindsay Frost, Miguel Sandoval, Harry Lennix, Jane Lynch, Tyler Posey, Rick Worthy, Raymond Cruz, J. Kenneth Campbell, Michael Cavanaugh, Nicholas Pryor/ Runtime: 108 minutes I feel it must be said that even…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: The Secret Life of Pets “2016”
MPAA Rating: PG/ Genre: Animated Comedy/ Voices of: Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart, Steve Coogan, Ellie Kemper, Bobby Moynihan, Lake Bell, Dana Carvey (!!), Hannibal Buress, Jenny Slate, Albert Brooks, Tara Strong, Chris Renaud/ Runtime: 98 minutes Let’s be honest here everyone: 2016 really truly was an absolutely amazing…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Hellraiser “87”
MPAA Rating: R/ Genre: Horror/Stars: Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Andrew Robinson, Sean Chapman, Robert Hines, Doug Bradley, Nicholas Vince, Simon Bamford, Grace Kirby, Oliver Smith/ Runtime: 93 minutes …..Well that was intense. Indeed if you want something that could easily be one of the horror genre’s textbook examples of how…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: The Descent “05”
MPAA Rating: R/ Genre: Horror/ Stars: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, MyAnna Buring, Saskia Mulder, Nora-Jane Noone, Oliver Milburn, Molly Kayll/ Runtime: 100 minutes I feel I must say that I had, much to my surprise, decent expectations for this film before delving right into it. Indeed this is…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Jurassic World “2015”
MPAA Rating: PG-13/ Genre: Sci-Fi Adventure/ Stars: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Nick Robinson, Tye Sheridan, Vincent D’Onofrio, Irrfan Kahn, Omar Sy, B.D. Wong, Jake Johnson, Lauren Lapkus, Brian Tee, Katie McGrath, Judy Greer, Andy Buckley/ Runtime: 124 minutes I think I should get this out of the way before…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: The Usual Suspects “95”
MPAA Rating: R/ Genre: Neo-Noir Mystery/ Stars: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite, Kevin Spacey, Suzy Amis, Benicio del Toro, Giancarlo Esposito, Dan Hedaya, Clark Gregg/ Runtime: 108 minutes One day I was in Half Price Books, and I was going through a book about the…
