Virginia Madsen, Michael Madsen, James Belushi, the late Burt Young and a fuck ton of other famous people are in the excruciatingly dull 1999 working class drama The Florentine. For the love of God, why?
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Five thousand words on music, memory, childhood, sadness, imprisonment, despair AND the First ever Blues Brothers Con at Old Joliet Prison. It was a trip, y’all!
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I only spent a single day at the first and possibly last Blues Brothers Convention but I got more out of it professionally and emotionally than I ever could have imagined.
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I’ve learned to love the deeply flawed unconditionally. That includes 1980’s The Blues Brothers, which I dig to the extent that I am going to a convention for it but I need your help!
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Oliver Stone’s 1986 melodrama Salvador is essentially Fear and Loathing in Central America when James Woods and Jim “The Beloosh” Belushi head down to El Salvador to party and end up in the middle of a bloody Civil War.
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Mismatched Buddy Cop Movie Month continues with Number One With a Bullet, a dire obscurity James Belushi co-wrote but did not star in with Robert Carradine in a role meant for Belushi and Billy Dee Williams as the silky smooth straight man.
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Eugene Levy made his directorial debut in a Dino De Laurentis produced light mystery comedy with John Candy that got a Zero Rating on Rotten Tomatoes but is actually pretty funny.
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At the height of Tarantino mania, the Oscar-winning auteur played a magical hipster in Destiny Turns Out the Radio, a movie that went a long way towards killing audience’s desire to see Tarantino act ever again, regardless of context.
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Steve McQueen is quietly magnificent as a fading champion of the rodeo in Sam Peckinpah’s gentlest movie.
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An ambitious, patron-funded exploration of the films of Sam Peckinpah begins with a look at his 1961 debut The Deadly Companions.
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