Stuart Gordon’s deranged 1996 science fiction comedy Space Truckers went direct to video and looms as one of its creator’s biggest failures but it’s a lot more delightfully warped than its reputation suggests.
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An Ohio lawyer sued to get the rights to co-write and starred in a “sequel” to Easy Rider. Tragically and hilariously, he succeeded.
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The young people of today seem to have only now discovered Jennifer Connelly’s hotness. We Gen Xers have known about that since at least 1990’s The Hot Spot.
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Dennis Hopper didn’t direct a lot of movies but good lord did his 1969 debut Easy Rider make a seismic impact. The same, alas, is not true of his breezy whiff of a last movie, the silly 1994 road comedy Chasers.
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Nicolas Cage is a good man who finds himself in a bad situation in this masterful Neo-Noir from John Dahl.
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Our patron-funded exploration of the films of David Bowie hits another big milestone with 1996’s Basquiat, which unforgettably cast a terrific Bowie as Andy Warhol and an even better Jeffrey Wright in a star-making turn as the legendary painter and art world icon.
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Sam Peckinpah’s gloriously checkered career as a filmmaker ended with a convoluted but reasonably engaging adaptation of a Robert Ludlam novel featuring a murderer’s row of great character actors, including Burt Lancaster, Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Dennis Hopper, Chris Sarandon and an exquisitely mustached Craig T. Nelson.
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The sky was crystal blue, just like 9/11 when I discovered a movie (Easy Rider: The Ride Back) so fucking nuts and preposterous seeming—it's a no-name, low-budget, faintly Libertarian official sequel to Easy Rider that's mostly about respecting veterans—I had to share it with the world.
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A new feature on movies united by being crammed onto the same value-priced DVD begins with a pair of Dennis Hopper obscurities from the mid-1990s, one a lot of fun, the other less so.
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