Cruising (1980)
Despite being approached several times with New York Times reporter Gerald Walker’s 1970 novel Cruising, William Friedkin (The Exorcist, Sorcerer and perhaps not as successfully, Jade) wasn’t interested. He changed his mind after an unsolved series of murders in New York’s leather bars. Articles by Village Voice journalist Arthur Bell and NYPD officer Randy Jurgensen […]
The Banana Splits Movie (2019)
Danishka Esterhazy’s films are often female-centric, like Level 16, a dystopian story where girls are trained to be perfect young women. How that prepared her for a movie that reimagines the 1960’s Sid and Marty Krofft creation for Hanna-Barbera is a good question. Here’s some trivia — the original show was directed by Richard Donner. If […]
Escape Plan (2013)
Despite the teaming of Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Escape Plan underperformed at the U.S. box office. So how have there been three of these films? Simple. International box-office success, as this movie debuted in first place in several foreign markets, with the total international gross more than doubling its $50 million budget, leading to a […]
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