MPAA Rating: R/Genre: Psychological Thriller/Stars: Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills, John Larch, Jack Ging, Irene Hervey, James McEachin, Clarice Taylor, Donald Siegel, Duke Everts, Jack Kosslyn, Britt Lind, and Johnny Otis, Joe Zawinul, and Cannonball Adderley as themselves/Runtime: 102 minutes If there is a single lesson that people of…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Tremors “90”
MPAA Rating: PG-13/Genre: Monster Comedy Horror/Stars: Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, Reba McEntire, Bobby Jacoby, Charlotte Stewart, Ariana Richards, Tony Genaro, Richard Marcus, Víctor Wong, Bibi Besch, Conrad Bachmann, Sunshine Parker, Michael Dan Wagner, John Goodwin, John Pappas/Runtime: 96 minutes If you ever want to see an…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Schindler’s List “93”
MPAA Rating: R/Genre: Epic Historical Drama/Stars: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall, Embeth Davidtz, Małgorzata Gebel, Mark Ivanir, Beatrice Macola, Andrzej Seweryn, Friedrich von Thun, Jerzy Nowak, Norbert Weisser, Albert Misak, Michael Gordon, Aldona Grochal, Uri Avrahami, Michael Schneider, Miri Fabian, Anna Mucha, Adi Nitzan, Jacek…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: The Frighteners “96”
MPAA Rating: R/Genre: Supernatural Comedy Horror/Stars: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Jeffrey Combs, Dee Wallace Stone, Jake Busey, Chi McBride, Jim Fyfe, Troy Evans, Julianna McCarthy, R. Lee Ermey, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Melanie Lynskey, Byron McCrawerly, Angela Bloomfield/Runtime: 109 minutes As I was finishing up my review…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: The Mummy “99”
MPAA Rating: PG-13/Genre: Action-Adventure/Stars: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Kevin J. O’Connor, Jonathan Hyde, Oded Fehr, Erick Avari, Stephen Dunham, Corey Johnson, Tuc Watkins, Omid Djalili, Aharon Ipalé, Bernard Fox, Patricia Velásquez/Runtime: 124 minutes It might come as a shock to hear a film reviewer like me…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Twisters “2024”
MPAA Rating: PG-13/Genre: Disaster/Stars: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Maura Tierney, Harry Hadden-Paton, Sasha Lane, Daryl McCormack, Kiernan Shipka, Nik Dodani, David Corenswet, Tunde Adebimpe, Katy O’Brian, Paul Scheer, James Paxton/Runtime: 122 minutes If there was ever a cinematic phenomenon that could claim to consistently cause a…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Red Dragon “02”
MPAA Rating: R/Genre: Psychological Thriller/Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel, Emily Watson, Mary-Louise Parker, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Anthony Heald, Bill Duke, Ken Leung, Stanley Anderson, Frank Whaley, Frankie Faison, Tyler Patrick Jones, Azura Skye/Runtime: 124 minutes If there was ever a thing in the realm of cinema…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Flash Gordon “80”
MPAA Rating: PG/Genre: Space Opera Superhero/Stars: Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Topol, Ornella Muti, Timothy Dalton, Brian Blessed, Peter Wyngarde, Mariangela Melato, Richard O’Brien, John Osborne, Philip Stone, John Hallam, Suzanne Danielle, John Morton, William Hootkins, Robbie Coltrane, Peter Duncan, John Hollis, Leon Greene, Tony Scannell, Bogdan…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Abigail “2024”
MPAA Rating: R/Genre: Monster Horror/Stars: Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Alisha Weir, Will Catlett, Kathryn Newton, Kevin Durand, Angus Cloud, Giancarlo Esposito, Matthew Goode/Runtime: 109 minutes Among the many things I never understood when I was growing up, there was one that (for the purposes of this review) proved to be…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: The Visit “2015”
MPAA Rating: PG-13/Genre: Found Footage Horror/Stars: Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, Kathryn Hahn, Patch Darragh, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Benjamin Kanes/Runtime: 94 minutes If you had to make a list of the directors in the land of movie magic that have had quite the rather intriguing career trajectory then…
