Gene Hackman — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

Like So Many Great Directors of the Seventies, Michael Ritchie’s Career Got Off to a Great Start With a Classic Debut (1969’s Downhill Racer) and Ended With a Muddled Dud (The Fantastiks)

Like so many great directors of the 1970s, satire and sports specialist Michael Ritchie’s career got off to a great start with a classic debut (1969’s Downhill Racer) and a muddled dud of a final film (The Fantastiks)

First and Last 2.0Nathan RabinJanuary 19, 2023Michael Ritchie, Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, skiing

The Travolta/Cage Project #42 Get Shorty (1995)

Hey, you know what movie is great? Get Shorty. That movie is SO good.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #103 Heist (2001)

One of you kind folks paid me to re-visit a flashy David Mamet heist movie starring Gene Hackman, Sam Rockwell, Delroy Lindo and Danny DeVito that’s either very clever, astonishingly stupid, or both.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJune 16, 2020David Mamet, Gene Hackman, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ricky Jay

My World of Flops Multiple Personalities, Minimal Laughs Case File #160: Loose Cannons (1990)

Mismatched Buddy Cop Movie Month begins with the 1990 dud Loose Cannons, a mental illness-themed action comedy about a traumatized cop with an outrageous case of Dissociative identity disorder