Logan's Movie Reviews

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. Director: Stanley Kubrick Writers:  Stephen King (novel), Stanley Kubrick (screenplay) Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd

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An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret. Directed by Ryan Fleck Starring: Ryan Gosling as Dan Dunne, a troubled history teacher Shareeka Epps as Drey, a 13 year-old student of Dan's Anthony Mackie as Frank, a local drug dealer Monique Gabriela Curnen as Isabel, a teacher Denis O'Hare as Jimbo, a teacher

Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski mentors his young neighbor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino. Clint Eastwood: Walt Kowalski Christopher Carley: Father Janovich Bee Vang: Thao Ahney Her: Sue

After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own. Director:  David O. Russell Writers:  David O. Russell (screenplay), Matthew Quick(novel) Stars:  Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro

A young writing prodigy finds a mentor in a reclusive author. Director:  Gus Van Sant Stars:  Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin

The rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, only heats up when one gang member kills a member of the other. Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio Director: Francis Ford Coppola 

Wild Things, 1998 - Logan's Movie Reviews

Brick is a 2005 American neo-noir thriller film written and directed by Rian Johnson, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.  A hardboiled detective story that takes place in a Californian suburb. Most of the main characters are high school students. The film draws heavily in plot, characterization, and dialogue from hardboiled classics, especially from Dashiell Hammett. The title refers to a block of heroin, compressed roughly to the size and shape of a brick. The film is widely regarded as a cult classic.

A group of young recruits go through boot camp during the Second World War in Biloxi Mississippi. From the play by Neil Simon. Director:  Mike Nichols Starring: Matthew Broderick...Eugene Morris Jerome Christopher Walken...Sgt. Toomey Matt Mulhern...Joseph Wykowski Corey Parker...Arnold B. Epstein Markus Flanagan...Roy Selridge Casey Siemaszko...Don Carney Michael Dolan...James J. Hennesey Penelope Ann Miller...Daisy

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City Director: Milos Forman Cast: James Cagney - New York Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo Howard E. Rollins Jr. - Coalhouse Walker Jr. Brad Dourif - Younger Brother Elizabeth McGovern - Evelyn Nesbit Debbie Allen - Sarah Robert Joy - Henry Thaw Norman Mailer - Stanford White James Olson - Father Mary Steenburgen - Mother

Franklin Hatchet (Chris Tucker) is a small time con man who instantly becomes famous after a murder, wanted dead or alive, his only hope is a journalist named James Russell (Sheen) Chris Tucker as Franklin Hatchett Charlie Sheen as James Russell Heather Locklear as Grace Cipriani Elise Neal as Paula Paul Sorvino as Guy Cipriani Larry Hankin as Roland Michael Wright as Aaron

SPOILER REVIEW: A Bronx Tale, 1993 - by Logan's Movie Reviews Feat co-hosts 1Silva http://twitter.com/ROBERTSILVA5768) Logan http://twitter.com/logansmovie) Please give us a good review on Itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/film-reviews/id314136114 Movie Synopsis Gangster Sonny is the big man in the Bronx neighborhood of an Italian small boy named Calogero.  Starring: Robert De Niro...(Lorenzo) Chazz Palminteri...(Sonny)

Terry Noonan returns home to New York's Hells Kitchen after a ten year absence. He soon hooks up with childhood pal Jackie who is involved in the Irish mob run by his brother Frankie. Terry also rekindles an old flame with Jackie's sister Kathleen. Soon, however, Terry is torn between his loyalty to his friends and his loyalties to others. Starring: Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Ed Harris Directed by:  Phil Joanou

A black uniformed policeman is recruited by a devious drug enforcement agent to infiltrate a smuggling organization seeking to expand into designer drugs. This 'ugly side of the war on drugs' explores the context of race, identity and hypocrisy within a brutal and alienating investigation. Starring: Lawrence Fishburne as Russell Stevens/Johnny "John" HullJeff Goldblum as David JasonCharles Martin Smith as DEA Agent Gerald CarverVictoria Dillard as Betty McCutcheonGregory Sierra as Felix BarbossaGlynn Turman as Russell Stevens Sr.Clarence Williams III as TaftKamala Lopez-Dawson as Belinda Chacon

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership. Director: Peter Bogdanovich Writers: Joe David Brown (based on the novel: "Addie Pray" by), Alvin Sargent (screenplay) Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn  

A lawyer becomes a target by a corrupt politician and his NSA goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a serious politically motivated crime. Stars: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight Director: Tony Scott Writer: David Marconi  watch it free on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF6rG4uGOrI

The Warriors, 1979, directed by Walter Hill and based on Sol Yurick's 1965 novel of the same name. Like the novel, the film borrows elements from the Anabasis by Xenophon. Starring: Michael Beck as Swan James Remar as Ajax Dorsey Wright as Cleon Brian Tyler as Snow David Harris as Cochise Tom McKitterick as Cowboy  Deborah Van Valkenburgh as Mercy

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager. Director: Brian De Palma (as Brian DePalma) Writers: Daniel Lang (book), David Rabe (screenplay) Stars: Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey

Affliction, 1998, written and directed by Paul Schrader from the novel by Russell Banks. It stars Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Willem Dafoe. Affliction tells the story of Wade Whitehouse, a small-town policeman in New Hampshire. Detached from the people around him, including a dominating father and a divorced wife, he becomes obsessed with the solving of a fatal hunting accident, leading to a series of tragic events.