"Tonight we will be showing The Good, The Bad, The Weird. The film takes place in 1930s Manchuria and tells the story of an outlaw, an assassin, and a bounty hunter, and their race possess a stolen treasure map.
The Good, The Bad, The Weird's departures from traditional Westerns are made immediately clear by its opening, which jumps straight into the story and action, setting the film's fast pace and energetic, playful tone. Director Jee-woon Kim said he "wanted to…
"Tonight we will be showing The Sweeper. Released directly to video in 1996, The Sweeper is a high point from the catalog of legendary DTV studio PM Entertainment.
Formed in 1989, PM Entertainment takes its name from the surnames of its founders, Richard Pepin and Joseph Merhi. Pepin and Merhi would be very hands-on with their productions, each serving as writers and directors, with Merhi serving as director for The Sweeper.
Pepin had moved to the US from Canada and…
"By now, most people widely accept Die Hard to be a Christmas movie. For tonight's exhibition, we'll be showing a Christmas film of a slightly different flavor: The Long Kiss Goodnight. Written by big-time Christmas lover Shane Black -- who's also written several other films set during the holiday season, such as Lethal Weapon, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and Iron Man 3 -- The Long Kiss Goodnight is an odd couple adventure filled with outrageous one-liners and explosive action beats……
"Hot off the heels of Conan the Barbarian and The Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger was quickly launching into superstardom and -- along with rival Sylvester Stallone -- was beginning to reinvent action films of the West into American Muscle: action movies with heroes defined by their physique and machismo. The blueprint for this would be complete with the release of tonight's film, 1985's Commando, but the lead-up to this moment began just over ten years earlier with the book Pumping Iron,…
