In the very brief span of just nineteen months, between multiple Oscar wins for The Deer Hunter in April 1979 to the disastrous financial and critical failure of Heaven’s Gate in November 1980, Michael Cimino went from being a celebrated Hollywood darling to a pariah in the filmmaking industry. The director wouldn’t attempt (or wouldn’t… Read More You’re Too Impressed with Yourself | Year of the Dragon (1985) Blu-ray
Fresh off his Oscar win for Platoon, filmmaker Oliver Stone transitioned directly from the jungle combat of Vietnam to a very different battlefield in the cutthroat trenches of Wall Street. Released in 1987, the financial drama was a solid box office success and won star Michael Douglas an Oscar, but was also greeted by mixed… Read More How Much Is Enough? | Wall Street (1987) Blu-ray
Following his U.S. Army service and combat experience in the Vietnam War, an aspiring young filmmaker named Oliver Stone graduated from NYU film school and managed to get his first theatrical feature financed, produced, and granted a limited release. That’s an extremely impressive achievement for anyone to attain by the age of just 28-years-old, even… Read More Getting Blood from a Stone | Seizure (1974)
Arnold Schwarzenegger was already a celebrity by the early 1980s from his bodybuilding career, TV appearances, and featured screen time in the popular documentary Pumping Iron, but his attempts at acting didn’t really take off until he landed the lead in Conan the Barbarian. A screen vehicle well-tailored to both his strengths and limitations, the… Read More Days of High Adventure | Conan the Barbarian (1982) Arrow Video 4K Ultra HD
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