Donnie Darko: Director’s Cut

After graduating film school in 1997, Richard Kelly conceived an idea of a jet engine falling from the sky crashing onto a house with no clue where it came from. Mixes a coming-of-age teen movie and science fiction in an attempt to push creative boundaries. Richard selected the 1980s as the main setting and exploring […]

An American Werewolf in London

I saw Lon Chaney Jr. walking with The Queen, doin’ the Werewolves of London. – Warren Zevon In 1970, John Landis worked as a production assistant on the Clint Eastwood film, “Kelly’s Heroes.” He up with an idea after coming across a group of Romani people performing a ritual on a guy being buried so […]

Face/Off

After completing separate projects, “Broken Arrow” & “The Rock,” John Travolta & Nicolas “Nic” Cage signed on to play hero and villain in a John Woo action-adventure movie originally considered as a dream movie with Sylvester Stallone & Arnold Schwarzenegger duking it out. Due to scheduling conflicts of the pair’s solo projects, “Cop Land” and […]

Valley Girl (1983)

After making his film debut in the teen comedy classic, “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” Nicolas Coppola changed his last name to Cage as a tribute to Marvel superhero, Luke Cage to avoid nepotism as the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola. Meaning, he wants to make it without his uncle’s connections. Nic starred in his […]

The Goonies

“Wanna get a mansion, a jacuzzi, a theater to watch my movies, couple whips and lots of things, the kids they call The Goonies.” – Mac Miller. Released in 1985, (same year Back to the Future came out) it received praise from critics and movie goers alike. In addition to good reviews, the film was […]

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

In 1989, manga artist/writer, Masamune Shirow published a manga series for Kodansha titled, “Ghost in the Shell.” Set in a futuristic version of Tokyo, Japan in 2029, the manga follows a female cyborg named, Motoko Kusanagi. She works for a law enforcement agency filled with former military veterans and police officers assigned to do whatever […]