MPAA Rating: R/ Genre: War Drama/Stars: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman, Andre Braugher, Jihmi Kennedy, Cliff De Young, Alan North, John Finn, Bob Gunton, Jay O. Sanders, Raymond St. Jacques, Richard Riehle/ Runtime: 122 minutes I feel it is safe to start this review off by saying…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Mission: Impossible “96”
MPAA Rating: PG-13/ Genre: Action-Thriller/ Stars: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Ving Rhames, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno, Vanessa Redgrave, Kristen Scott Thomas, Emilio Estevez, Marcel Lures, Dale Dye/ Runtime: 110 minutes In the early 90’s, the world of film started to see a trend begin developing in Hollywood that…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: The Bourne Identity “02”
MPAA Rating: PG-13/ Genre: Action-Thriller/ Stars: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Brian Cox, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Gabriel Mann, Julia Stiles, Orso Maria Guerrini, Tim Dutton, Walton Goggins, Josh Hamilton, Brian Huskey/ Runtime: 119 minutes In the long-gone year of 1962, the film industry broke new ground when, with…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: The Dirty Dozen “67”
MPAA Rating: NR/Genre: War/ Stars: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Trini Lopez, Ralph Meeker, Robert Ryan, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Clint Walker, Robert Webber/ Runtime: 150 minutes You know life is a funny thing when the far-gone year of 1967 paid…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Chicago “02”
MPAA Rating: PG-13/ Genre: Musical Black Comedy-Crime/ Stars: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly, Christine Baranski, Lucy Liu, Taye Diggs, Colm Feore, Dominic West/ Runtime: 113 minutes If there is one thing I have learned in my time as a film reviewer, it is that…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: The Hurt Locker “08”
MPAA Rating: R/ Genre: War Drama/ Stars: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, Guy Pearce, Evangeline Lilly/ Runtime: 131 minutes I feel it must be said that ever since movies became a medium both to entertain and educate the world around us, war has…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Airplane! “80”
MPAA Rating: PG/ Genre: Parody Comedy/ Stars: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Lorna Patterson, Stephen Stucker, Frank Ashmore, Jonathan Banks, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Barbara Billingsley, Lee Bryant, Nicholas Pryor, Joyce Bulifant, Maureen McGovern, Kenneth Tobey, Barbara Stuart, Rossie Harris, Jason Wingreen, Jill Whelan, Ethel…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: King Kong “05”
MPAA Rating: PG-13/ Genre: Adventure-Action-Fantasy/ Stars: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Evan Parke, Kyle Chandler, John Sumner, Lobo Chan, Craig Hall, Mark Hadlow/ Runtime: 187 minutes I feel it is safe to say that we as movie lovers have for a…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Fight Club
MPAA Rating: R/ Genre: Drama-Thriller/ Stars: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helen Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto, Zach Grenier, Holt McCallany, Eion Bailey, Mark Fite/ Runtime: 139 minutes I think it is safe to say dear reader that the film-going community can be successfully split into a trio of distinct…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Unforgiven “92”
MPAA Rating: R/ Genre: Western/ Stars: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett, Saul Rubinek, Frances Fisher, Anna Thomson, Rob Campbell, Anthony James/ Runtime: 131 minutes I feel it is safe to say that Ford, Leone, and Peckinpah are all legendary filmmakers who all managed to bring…