Fighting Mad (1976)

Written and Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Peter Fonda, Gino Franco, and Harry Northup
Reviewer: Brett Gallman
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The story of a man who dares to sound his ground--until they blow it out from under him!

Reviewer's Rating: **½ (Two and a half Stars)

Our Idiot Brother (2011)

Written by: David Schisgall, Evgenia Peretz
Directed by: Jesse Peretz
Starring: Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, and Emily Mortimer
Reviewer: Brett Gallman

“Our idiot brother just ruined my freaking life!”

Reviewer's Rating: ***½ (Three and a half Stars)

13 Assassins (2010)

Written by: Kaneo Ikegami (screenplay), Daisuke Tengan (screenplay)
Directed by: Takashi Miike
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, and Yûsuke Iseya
Reviewer: Brett Gallman
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“I shall accomplish your task... with magnificence.”

Reviewer's Rating: ***½ (Three and a half Stars)

Krull (1983)

Written by: Stanford Sherman
Directed by: Peter Yates
Starring: Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, and Freddie Jones
Reviewer: Brett Gallman
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“Power is fleeting; love is eternal.”

Reviewer's Rating: ** (Two Stars)

Conan the Barbarian (2011)

Written by: Robert E. Howard (character), Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, and Sean Hood (screenplay)
Directed by: Marcus Nipsel
Starring: Jason Momoa, Stephen Lang, Rachel Nichols, and Rose McGowan
Reviewer: Brett Gallman

“I live. I love. I slay. And I am content.”

Reviewer's Rating: ** (Two Stars)

Conan the Destroyer (1984)

Written by: Robert E. Howard (character), Roy Thomas & Gerry Conway (story), Stanley Mann (screenplay)
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Wilt Chamberlain, and Sarah Douglas
Reviewer: Brett Gallman

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"I suppose nothing hurts you."
"Only pain.”

Reviewer's Rating: **½ (Two and One Half Stars)

Conan the Barbarian (1982)

Written by: John Milius & Oliver Stone (screenplay), Robert E. Howard (stories)
Directed by: John Milius
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, and Sadahl Bergman
Reviewer: Brett Gallman
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“Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, or why we died. All that matters is that two stood against many.”

Reviewer's Rating: *** (Three Stars)

Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)

Written by: John Davies, Jason Eisener, and Rob Cotterill
Directed by: Jason Eisener
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Molly Dunsworth, and Brian Downey
Reviewer: Brett Gallman
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“When life gives you razor blades... you make a baseball bat, covered in razor blades.”

Reviewer's Rating: *** (3 Stars)

Strangers on a Train (1951)

Written by: Raymond Chandler, Czenzi Ormonde, & Whitfield Cook (screenplay) and Patricia Highsmith (novel)
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, and Ruth Roman
Reviewer: Brett Gallman
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“My theory is that everyone is a potential murderer.”

Reviewer's Rating: **** (Four Stars)

30 Minutes or Less (2011)

Written by: Michael Diliberti and Matthew Sullivan
Directed by: Ruben Fleischer
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, Aziz Ansari, and Nick Swardson
Reviewer: Brett Gallman

“Sometimes fate pulls out its big ol' cock and slaps you right in face.”

Reviewer's Rating: *** (Three Stars)

Executioners from Shaolin (1977)

Written by: Kuang Ni
Directed by: Chia-Liang Liu
Starring: Kuan Tai Chen, Lily Li, and Lieh Lo
Reviewer: Brett Gallman
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“Of all the students of Chi Sen, I knew you’d be the only one to look for me. You have guts.”

Reviewer's Rating: *** (Three Stars)

The Help (2011)

Written by: Tate Taylor (screenplay), Kathryn Stockett (novel)
Directed by: Tate Taylor
Starring: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, and Octavia Spencer
Reviewer: Brett Gallman

“These women raise white children--we love them, and they love us--but they can't even use the toilets in our houses.”

Reviewer's Rating: *** (Three Stars)

Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

Written and directed by: Mike Figgis
Starring: Nicholas Cage, Elisabeth Shue & Julian Sands
Reviewer: Brett H.
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“Is drinking a way of killing yourself?”
“Or, is killing myself a way of drinking?”
Reviewer's Rating: * * * * (4 Stars)

Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976)

Written by: Fernando Di Leo, Alberto Marras, Vincenzo Salviani
Directed by: Ruggero Deodato
Starring: Marc Porel and Ray Lovelock
Reviewer: Brett Gallman
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“You're bad in my books. I'm not saying you're incompetent, but every time you're out on a job, you leave two or three bodies behind in bits and pieces.”

Reviewer's Rating: *** (Three Stars)

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

Written by: Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa
Directed by: Rupert Wyatt
Starring: James Franco, Frieda Pinto, John Lithgow, and Andy Serkis
Reviewer: Brett Gallman

Evolution becomes revolution.

Reviewer's Rating: ***½ (Three and a half Stars)

Planet of the Apes (2001)

Written by: William Broyles Jr., Lawrence Konner, & Mark Rosenthal (screenplay), Pierre Boulle (novel)
Directed by: Tim Burton
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, and Michael Clark Duncan
Reviewer: Brett Gallman
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“Get your stinking hands off me, you damn dirty human!”

Reviewer's Rating: **½ (Two and a half Stars)

Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

Written by: Paul Dehn (story), Pierre Boulle (characters), John William Corrington & Joyce Hooper Corrington (screenplay)
Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Paul Williams, and John Huston
Reviewer: Brett Gallman
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“ In the beginning God created beast and man so that both might live in friendship and share dominion over a world of peace.”

Reviewer's Rating: **½ (Two and a half Stars)

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)

Written by: Paul Dehn (screenplay), Pierre Boulle (characters)
Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, and Ricardo Montalban
Reviewer: Brett Gallman
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“Ape Management... is in the hands of the apes.”

Reviewer's Rating: *** (Three Stars)

Escape From the Planet of the Apes (1971)

Written by: Paul Dehn (screenplay), Pierre Boulle (characters)
Directed by: Don Taylor
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, and Bradford Dillman
Reviewer: Brett Gallman
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“That's what I'm worried about--'later.' Later we'll do something about pollution. Later we'll do something about the population explosion. Later we'll do something about the nuclear war. We think we've got all the time in the world, but how much time has the world got? Somebody has to begin to care.”

Reviewer's Rating: *** (Three Stars)

Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

Written by: Pierre Boulle (characters), Paul Dehn & Mort Abrahams (story, screenplay)
Directed by: Ted Post
Starring: James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, and Charlton Heston
Reviewer: Brett Gallman
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“The only good human... is a dead human!”

Reviewer's Rating: **½ (Two and One Half Stars)