All right, folks, strap in and keep your remotes handy because today I’m going to talk about Heat, one of the longest movies you’ll ever love.
The folks out at Warner Brothers sent me a copy of Heat, and you might be wondering why I’m talking about a movie this old. Well, it’s not like some of you haven’t heard of it, but it was just released on Blu-ray, so we’ve got a responsibility to cover it.
Heat features Val Kilmer and the gigantic concentrated awesome heap that is Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in the same movie. It’s about a career thief who leads a team of thieves through an incredible robbery that nets the team just over a million and a half bucks in bearer bonds. The bonds were insured, so the only real victim here is the insurance company, and we’ve all been able to agree that they could have used a kick in the slats since 1995 anyway. Anyway, the fun really starts when the team tries to sell back the stolen bonds instead of laundering them.
Heat is a long–VERY long!–and incredibly involving tale of deceit, thievery and murder that’s actually very engrossing. I’d actually seen this one maybe five or six times over the last (nearly) fifteen years, so it was a welcome treat. But you will have to brace yourself adequately. Clear your calendar, get your snacks together in advance, because this is a LONG movie. Nearly THREE HOURS worth of long, in fact.
But the critical takeaway here is that it’s also really, REALLY exciting.
The Screenhead Ten Scale loves my taste in movies and hands this a seven out of ten for being a solid actioner with a lot of twists, even if it’s a bit too long.
Straits, a story based the novel written by Kem Nunn, is a multifaceted, visual story of a world of outcasts, which takes place in California and Mexico’s along the Pacific Ocean.
The main character is a reclusive ex-surfer who is drawn into helping a Mexican woman who is being hunted down by a hired killer from the cartels. The cartels want to silence her before she exposes corruption in Tijuana.
Waugh started as a Hollywood stuntman and recently directed a true-to-life prison movie, Felon, starring Val Kilmer.
The Steam Experiment sounds gruesome to me but Hollywood Reporter calls it suspense.
You tell me…
The feature film involves six people trapped and terrorized in an urban Turkish bathhouse.
Val Kilmer plays a former university professor who overheats his hostages including Eric Roberts, Megan Brown, Patrick Muldoon, Eve Mauro, Quinn Duffy and Cordelia Reynolds.
The temperature of the bathhouse rises and the captives fight for survival.
Professor’s motive?
To prove that humans devolve into chaos under pressures of global warming.
Armnad Assante comes into the film as the detective who negotiates with the professor to reveal the victims locations if his theory is printed in the front-page of local headlines.
The film recently began principle photography in Grand Rapids, Michigan with Philippe Martinez directing.
Felon is a MUST SEE for all who want to see what inside a prison is like – for real. A friend emailed me about the movie, starring Val Kilmer, Sam Sheppard, Stephen Dorff and Marisol Nichols.
He was invited to the premiere last night and the movie is not only gripping, intense and emotional BUT very factual in its representation of prison life.
Marisol Nichols does a fantastic job!
I know you will get a total reality of what prison is like once you have seen it. Felon opened in LA and New York this week.
Val Kilmer and are set hook up with Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendez in cop drama Bad Lieutenant, a remake of Abel Ferrara’s cult classic.
The original focused on the depraved escapades of a corrupt policeman (Harvey Keitel) investigating the rape of a nun. The new film features Kilmer as the partner of Cage’s crooked cop and Xzibit as a villain.
Lieutenant most likely captures the spirit of the original, with the main character’s drug intake, his accepting sexual favors as bribes and other elements that inducement so many to the 1992 version.
Turn on your plasma screen this weekend and watch Oliver Stone’s “Alexander the Great” on American Movie Classics, June 21 8PM/7C and June 22 8PM/7C. As Alexander the Great, Colin Farrell pouts and contemplates as he conquers the known world by the time he is twenty-five. Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie and Val Kilmer also star.
I think telling any story about a great man from ancient history is not easy. Oliver Stone did a grand job. The above trailer shows it all.
The folks out at Warner Brothers sent me a copy of Heat, and you might be wondering why I’m talking about a movie this old. Well, it’s not like some of you haven’t heard of it, but it was just released on Blu-ray, so we’ve got a responsibility to cover it.
