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BOWFINGER (1999)
Living for the Cinema - July 12, 2024 02:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsFrank Oz (What About Bob?, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) directed this satirical showbiz comedy with a truly unique premise: a now desperate movie producer named Bowfinger is positively set on filming a new movie on the fly with a popular movie star named Kit Ramsey....who doesn't know that he's bein...
BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F (2024)
Living for the Cinema - July 09, 2024 18:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsAxel Foley (Eddie Murphy) is BACK.....for the first time in 30 years no less. :o We return to the ongoing adventures of the fast-talking, unflappable Detroit police detective who keeps finding excuses to visit Beverly Hills....this time to attempt to help out his now-grown daughter (Taylor Paige...
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024)
Living for the Cinema - July 09, 2024 18:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsAxel Foley (Eddie Murphy) is BACK.....for the first time in 30 years no less. :o We return to the ongoing adventures of the fast-talking, unflappable Detroit police detective who keeps finding excuses to visit Beverly Hills....this time to attempt to help out his now-grown daughter (Taylor Paige...
A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)
Living for the Cinema - July 05, 2024 17:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsFor the third entry in this successful sci-fi/horror franchise, the story kicks off at the very beginning of this worldwide alien invasion....in New York City, the city that never sleeps. So now these terrifying creatures who are mainly attracted to sound waves....are landing in the ONE place w...
A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE (2024)
Living for the Cinema - July 05, 2024 17:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsFor the third entry in this successful sci-fi/horror franchise, the story kicks off at the very beginning of this worldwide alien invasion....in New York City, the city that never sleeps. So now these terrifying creatures who are mainly attracted to sound waves....are landing in the ONE place w...
Run Lola Run (1999)
Living for the Cinema - July 02, 2024 17:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsTwenty-five years ago, this high-energy German-language action thriller started to take the world by storm as it was also released in the U.S. becoming an instant cult phenomenon. The story it quite simple: Manny (Moritz Bliebtreu) is a young drug courier living in Berlin who has just bungled a...
The Bikeriders (2024)
Living for the Cinema - June 28, 2024 16:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsThis period crime drama has often been described as "Goodfellas with Motorcyle's" as it chronicles the saga of a Midwestern motorcycle club or "gang" in 1967 adapted from a non-fiction photo-book of the same name. The story focuses on Kathy (Jodie Comer) who is new to this world and has fallen ...
The Verdict (1982)
Living for the Cinema - June 25, 2024 17:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsDirected by the late, great Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men, Serpico, Network) and in honor of his 100th Birthday (!), this courtroom drama stars the legendary Paul Newman as a semi-alcoholic Boston attorney taking on what might be his most challenging case yet! The family of a pregnant woman - rece...
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
Living for the Cinema - June 21, 2024 23:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsIn honor of Pride Month and celebrating this film's upcoming 30th Anniversary, it's time to embark on the exciting adventures of three drag queens travelling across the Australian Outback on a bus which actually shares its title with this movie. :) This Oscar-winning cult hit was directed by Ste...
THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT (1994)
Living for the Cinema - June 21, 2024 23:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsIn honor of Pride Month and celebrating this film's upcoming 30th Anniversary, it's time to embark on the exciting adventures of three drag queens travelling across the Australian Outback on a bus which actually shares its title with this movie. :) This Oscar-winning cult hit was directed by Ste...
Do The Right Thing (1989)
Living for the Cinema - June 19, 2024 03:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsIn honor of the Juneteenth holiday and just in time for the 35th Anniversary of its U.S. release, this is very likely THE signature filmmaking achievement from one of our most important filmmakers. It was written by, directed by , and also happens to start Oscar-winner Spike Lee in a relatively...
DO THE RIGHT THING (1989)
Living for the Cinema - June 19, 2024 03:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsIn honor of the Juneteenth holiday and just in time for the 35th Anniversary of its U.S. release, this is very likely THE signature filmmaking achievement from one of our most important filmmakers. It was written by, directed by , and also happens to start Oscar-winner Spike Lee in a relatively...
THE IN-LAWS (1979)
Living for the Cinema - June 14, 2024 04:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsJust in time for Father's Day, here is a fondly remembered action comedy starring two legends which was first released 45 years ago this month. Those two legends are Peter Falk (TV's Columbo) and Alan Arkin (Oscar-winner for Little Miss Sunshine) who play two VERY different fathers whose respec...
The In-Laws (1979)
Living for the Cinema - June 14, 2024 04:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsJust in time for Father's Day, here is a fondly remembered action comedy starring two legends which was first released 45 years ago this month. Those two legends are Peter Falk (TV's Columbo) and Alan Arkin (Oscar-winner for Little Miss Sunshine) who play two VERY different fathers whose respec...
THE BIRDCAGE (1996)
Living for the Cinema - June 11, 2024 02:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsAdapted from the French smash hit of stage screen "La Cage Aux Folles," this raucous farce about two VERY different families about to join via marriage was directed by the late, great Mike Nichols who directed modern classics of various genres including The Graduate, Catch-22, Working Girl, Silk...
The Birdcage (1996)
Living for the Cinema - June 11, 2024 02:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsAdapted from the French smash hit of stage screen "La Cage Aux Folles," this raucous farce about two VERY different families about to join via marriage was directed by the late, great Mike Nichols who directed modern classics of various genres including The Graduate, Catch-22, Working Girl, Silk...
HIT MAN (2024)
Living for the Cinema - June 07, 2024 03:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsAcclaimed Five Time Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Boyhood, Before Sunrise) has returned with his latest opus which received a TON of strong buzz on the festival circuit last year....and was then purchased by Netflix and held for a mostly streaming release this y...
Hit Man (2024)
Living for the Cinema - June 07, 2024 03:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsAcclaimed Five Time Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Boyhood, Before Sunrise) has returned with his latest opus which received a TON of strong buzz on the festival circuit last year....and was then purchased by Netflix and held for a mostly streaming release this y...
Speed (1994)
Living for the Cinema - June 03, 2024 23:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsThirty years ago, this high-concept action thriller loosely described as "Die Hard on a Bus" surprisingly took the world by storm. It was directed by Jan De Bont (Twister) and stars Keanu Reeves with an uncharacteristically short haircut (for him) as Jack, a young up-and-coming LAPD cop learnin...
SPEED (1994)
Living for the Cinema - June 03, 2024 23:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsThirty years ago, this high-concept action thriller loosely described as "Die Hard on a Bus" surprisingly took the world by storm. It was directed by Jan De Bont (Twister) and stars Keanu Reeves with an uncharacteristically short haircut (for him) as Jack, a young up-and-coming LAPD cop learnin...
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) - "Living For The Max" Series
Living for the Cinema - May 31, 2024 19:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsWelcome to the Living for the Max series. Over the past 45 years, there has been no other film franchise QUITE as inventive nor as consistently exciting as The Mad Max Saga….four films mostly chronicling the post-apocalyptic adventures of lone wolf Max Roxatansky played three times by Mel Gibso...
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
Living for the Cinema - May 29, 2024 05:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratings"The Magic Is Back!" That was the official tagline in the marketing for this highly anticipated sequel to '87's Lethal Weapon when it was first being released just under thirty-five years ago. We were rejoining the story of two very different Los Angeles cops who became friends at the end of ...
The Conversation (1974)
Living for the Cinema - May 24, 2024 06:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsCOPPOLA WEEK continues! Fifty years ago sandwiched between his two multiple Oscar-winning masterpieces of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Francis Ford Coppola finally had studio support to write and direct this passion project which he had been working on since the mid '60's. The stor...
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Living for the Cinema - May 21, 2024 02:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsIn time for its upcoming 45th Anniversary, Memorial Day AND the recent resurgence of its Oscar-winning director screening his long-developed passion project (Megalopolis....hopefully coming out later this year), what better time to revisit a film which itself was a long-gestating passion project...
APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
Living for the Cinema - May 21, 2024 02:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsIn time for its upcoming 45th Anniversary, Memorial Day AND the recent resurgence of its Oscar-winning director screening his long-developed passion project (Megalopolis....hopefully coming out later this year), what better time to revisit a film which itself was a long-gestating passion project...
KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (2024)
Living for the Cinema - May 17, 2024 15:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsSend us a Text Message. It's time to return of the most beloved and longest running franchises in cinema, the ongoing chronicles of an alternative timeline in Earth's history when humanity destroyed itself and the apes took over our planet, originally starting with the 1968 classic Planet of th...
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
Living for the Cinema - May 17, 2024 15:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsIt's time to return of the most beloved and longest running franchises in cinema, the ongoing chronicles of an alternative timeline in Earth's history when humanity destroyed itself and the apes took over our planet, originally starting with the 1968 classic Planet of the Apes starring Charlton ...
Top Secret (1984)
Living for the Cinema - May 15, 2024 04:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsWhat happens when you combine the directing trio (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker) behind the spoof smash Airplane , the on-screen debut of one of the beloved movie stars of his generation (Val Kilmer), one of the most acclaimed actors/movie stars of HIS generation (Omar Shariff), satir...
The Fall Guy (2024)
Living for the Cinema - May 10, 2024 04:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsBased on the beloved 1980's TV show starring Lee Majors, this romantic action comedy tells the story of a veteran stuntman Colt (Ryan Gosling), his director Jody (Emily Blunt), and ALL of the craziness which is occurring on and off the set of a major Hollywood production named where the main Tom...
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Living for the Cinema - May 06, 2024 06:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsIf you're director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas, and you have been tasked with developing a sequel to one of the most beloved and highest grossing action adventures (Raiders of the Lost Ark) of all time, what do you do for a follow-up? Well in this case, you go broader, sillier, a...
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