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Ten Best Harrison Ford Movies
Ten Movies - September 04, 2023 01:01 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWe have come to the end of our Harrison Ford season of the Ten Movies podcast and - in so coming - have learned many truths about Mr. Ford, America, and ourselves. We have learned what makes Harrison Ford a relatable everyman in his action hero roles - specifically, an air of befuddlement. The ...
Blade Runner
Ten Movies - August 29, 2023 01:01 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThough some of his other roles are more iconic, ‘Blade Runner' is perhaps Harrison Ford's most celebrated movie, at least in the world of genre films. Which, of course, made his career and has since gone on to entirely swallow contemporary cinema. But unlike Star Wars or Indiana Jones, Blade R...
Mosquito Coast
Ten Movies - August 22, 2023 01:01 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis is an odd duck in the Harrison Ford canon. Instead of his usual decent everyman hero, here he plays a deranged libertarian inventor who becomes increasingly unmoored from reality - endangered a young River Phoenix and the rest of his hapless family in the process. Brian and Hemal had mixe...
The Fugitive
Ten Movies - August 15, 2023 01:01 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsHarrison Ford had it all - a beautiful wife, a flourishing medical career and a big chunky beard. But then a sinister one-armed man murdered his wife and the bumbling cop blamed him and he had no choice but to become The Fugitive. Being The Fugitive is a tough business. He spends most of the m...
Cowboys & Aliens
Ten Movies - August 08, 2023 01:01 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA glossy, modern Hollywood western movie made with extreme attention to detail and featuring beloved A-List stars? And also aliens show up? The premise is solid gold - but the execution, sadly, left much to be desired. In ‘Cowboys & Aliens', released in 2011 and directed by Jon Favreau, Harris...
Air Force One
Ten Movies - August 01, 2023 01:01 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsExciting? Certainly. Preposterous? Absolutely. But will you enjoy Harrison Ford as the president of the United States, personally karate-fighting and machine-gunning an array of sneering terrorists who have seized his airplane? If you are a good American, you will. In ‘Air Force One', a 1997 a...
Working Girl
Ten Movies - July 25, 2023 01:01 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThough we know him more for action and adventure roles, Harrison Ford has been known to try his hand at a romantic comedy or two. Turns out that craggy handsomeness and twinkle-eyed charm are just as useful for wooing the ladies as it is for fending off space aliens. In ‘Working Girl', Melanie...
The Empire Strikes Back
Ten Movies - July 18, 2023 01:01 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIf there's a more iconic Harrison Ford role than Indiana Jones, it's Han Solo. The vest! The blaster! The roguish ne'er-do-well grin! The giant dog sidekick! He is the dashing space pirate by which all future dashing space pirates will be measured - and found wanting. We chose ‘The Empire Stri...
Witness
Ten Movies - July 11, 2023 01:01 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIf you're keen on unspoken but palpable yearning, ‘Witness' will be right up your alley. If, on the other hand, you enjoy things happening, this may not be the movie for you. In ‘Witness', the first of Harrison Ford's two mid-80s outings with director Peter Weir, our hero plays a gritty Philad...
Clear & Present Danger
Ten Movies - July 04, 2023 01:01 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIt's hard to think of a more iconic actor than Harrison Ford. And it's equally hard to think of a less interesting character than Jack Ryan, the protagonist of countless espionage thrillers. And yet, America loves Harrison Ford in this role. “How dare YOU, sir?” he barks angrily at the presiden...
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ten Movies - June 27, 2023 01:01 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIs there a more iconic Harrison Ford role than Indiana Jones, the bullwhip-snapping, fedora-clad, globe-trotting archeologist who fights Nazis and pillages artifacts from their cultures of origin, which was the style at the time? It can be difficult to step back from this movie's cultural pri...
Harrison Ford (Trailer)
Ten Movies - June 26, 2023 01:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsEvery season on the Ten Movies podcast we pick one iconic actor and watch ten of their most iconic movies. This season: Harrison Ford. He's charming! He's heroic! He's befuddled! Sometimes he's a rogue, sometimes he's a boy scout - but either way, moms want him and dads want to be him! Join us ...
Ranking Tom Cruise's Movies
Ten Movies - December 20, 2022 01:01 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWe have come to the end of the Tom Cruise season of Ten Movies. The legacy of America's Last Great American Movie Star is strong. He is a strange man, but he makes big, old-fashioned movies and he is 100% committed, whether he's leaping out of an exploding helicopter or swanning around turn-of-...
Top Gun: Maverick
Ten Movies - December 13, 2022 01:01 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsHey, remember Top Gun? It was that 80s movie full of strong-jawed, confident men flying cool fighter jets and having intense but controlled confrontations in their underwear. Well, the executives at Paramount Pictures remember it - along with the hundreds of millions of dollars it made them at ...
Jerry Maguire
Ten Movies - December 06, 2022 01:01 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsYou complete me. You had me at hello. Show me the money! If you were around during the 90s, you have almost certainly repeated one of the many memorable lines from ‘Jerry Maguire', the beloved rom-com / sports-comedy hybrid from fabled Gen X director Cameron Crowe. If you havent watched ‘Jerry...
The Mummy
Ten Movies - November 29, 2022 01:01 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSo many iconic Tom Cruise movies one could choose from. Why the 2017 flop ‘The Mummy? Wouldnt it have been better to just watch the Brendan Fraser version for the fifth time? But it has become so rare for Tom Cruise to star in a commercial failure. The man is a certified box office draw - he m...
The Firm
Ten Movies - November 22, 2022 01:01 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWhether he's running from aliens, infiltrating enemy lairs, or breaking the sound barrier, Tom Cruise's characters are always the best of the best. Here he's a hotshot young attorney, fresh out of law school, the best of the best. And the boutique Memphis law firm that hires him away from Wall ...
Interview with the Vampire
Ten Movies - November 15, 2022 01:01 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsOn the one hand, one regrets the recent, Twilight-era trend towards making cinematic vampires moody and emo, instead of soulless monsters of the terrifying dark. On the other hand, it's possible to lean a little too hard into the horrible - ‘Interview with the Vampire' is a seriously dark movie...
Minority Report
Ten Movies - November 08, 2022 01:01 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsTwo titans of popular American cinema, together for the first time! We are referring, of course, to Max von Sydow and Tim Blake Nelson. Ha! We joke. 'Minority Report', released in 2002, marks the first time that famed director Steven Spielberg worked with Tom Cruise. (Though Max von Sydow and T...
A Few Good Men
Ten Movies - November 01, 2022 01:01 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsYou want the truth? You can't handle the truth! No truth-handler, you. Bah! I deride your truth-handling abilities! It's all here in ‘A Few Good Men', the iconic military legal thriller courtroom drama. Tom Cruise as a cocky young hotshot lawyer! Demi Moore as an idealistic, impassioned caree...
Days of Thunder
Ten Movies - October 25, 2022 01:01 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIf you haven't seen 'Days of Thunder', it's basically the exact plot of 'Top Gun', except all the airplanes are racecars and the story is significantly slower and more ponderous. Tom Cruise leans heavily into type here, playing a cocky young hotshot racecar driver who is (say it with us) the b...
Mission: Impossible
Ten Movies - October 18, 2022 01:01 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIs there a more iconic Tom Cruise movie than 'Top Gun'? If there is, it's 'Mission: Impossible', the film that launched his longest-running and best-loved franchise - and steered him from the dramatic roles of the 80s and early 90s to the high-octane action films of his later career. The movie...
Top Gun
Ten Movies - October 11, 2022 01:01 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIf you're a fan of strong-jawed confident men making American military hegemony look fun and awesome, then Top Gun is the movie for you. Most of the time they're flying their cool fighter jets, but sometimes they're having intense but controlled confrontations in their underwear. But whether ...
Trailer: Tom Cruise
Ten Movies - October 04, 2022 01:01 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsEvery season the Ten Movies podcast picks one actor and watches ten of their most iconic movies. Join your delightful hosts Hemal and Brian for a brand-new season featuring The Last Great American Movie Star - Tom Cruise himself. The confidence. The boyish charm. The disappointing haircuts. It'...
11. Ranking Dwayne Johnson's Movies
Ten Movies - June 14, 2022 01:01 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsBrian and Hemal bid farewell to the Dwayne Johnson season of Ten Movies, sharing the insights they have gleaned into the dark quotidian heart of America during this season's journey. More importantly, they rank the ten movies from this season and disagree strongly on a definitive ordering of Th...
10. Hobbs and Shaw
Ten Movies - June 07, 2022 01:01 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAs Dwayne Johnson's cultural appreciation exceeds even his legendary physical might, he breaks free from the confines of the Fast & Furious franchise to team up with Jason Statham and fight the evil robot, Idris Elba. Technically the movie is called 'Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw'. How...
9. Rampage
Ten Movies - May 31, 2022 01:01 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe Rock doesn't just fight giant monsters in this one, he fights giant monsters and has an enormous monkey for a best friend. Hard to see how it could miss. If you're a Gen Xer, you may remember the beloved arcade game on which 'Rampage' was based. They've added some stuff, but the story is t...
8. Jumanji
Ten Movies - May 24, 2022 01:01 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe Rock isn't just immense, he's charming and funny, cinematic gifts on display in this family-friendly action-comedy. Worth your time? Hemal and Brian agreed, for once. In "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle," a band of mismatched high school students are sucked into an evil video game, where th...
7. Central Intelligence
Ten Movies - May 17, 2022 01:01 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsTeaming up with Kevin Hart, Dwayne Johnson tries his mighty hand at slapstick comedy. Is it an instant classic or a tonally incoherent mess? Brian and Hemal have your answer. Kevin Hart is a boring middle-class accountant and The Rock is a weirdly naive man-child who is also somehow a merciles...
6. Moana
Ten Movies - May 10, 2022 01:01 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDwayne Johnsons most beloved role as an animated Polynesian demigod - if, that is, you are a nine-year-old girl or the father of one. But did Hemal like it? In a bit of a departure from our usual fare, this week were looking at an animated film. But for many Americans (ie - nine-year-old girls...
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