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A Fun Review Of The Goonies

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

If you remember the eighties, then you certainly remember The Goonies. This movie was a classic. On the other hand, if you still haven’t seen it for some crazy reason… Think Pirates of the Caribbean meets Stand By Me meets Indiana Jones meets The Sopranos meets… Well, it’s a whole lot of different movies all wrapped into one, really. It’s primarily an adventure flick, but it makes a lot of stops along the way, and stands as one of the all time classic kids movie downloads.

Vietnam War Film The Classic Apocalypse Now

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

Coppola is one of those directors who’s tried his hand at everything, never really settling down. He’s so in love with the cinema, so curious, that he’s never truly satisfied to return to the same subject matter twice. In fact, outside of the Godfather films, he’s never really revisited a genre. So Apocalypse Now is, at once, a definition of what he did, and nowhere near a definition of what he did. It doesn’t contain any of Coppola’s usual stylistic touches because he really has no formula or pattern for how he makes his films, and that’s why it is his signature film.