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Posts Tagged "Benicio del Toro"

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Sicario **** (2015, Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro) – Movie Review

New US citizen Emily Blunt stars as idealistic FBI agent Kate Macer, who heads an FBI team on an pounding opening assault on an Arizona drug cartel hideaway, revealing a pile of bodies. Then Macer […]

Oct, 07

Escobar – Paradise Lost ***½ (2015, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Hutcherson, Claudia Traisac) – Movie Review

Josh Hutcherson stars as a young Canadian surfer who goes to live on the paradise beach in Colombia with his brother (Brady Corbet), and meets Maria (Claudia Traisac), the woman of his dreams. But then heaven turns into […]

Aug, 20

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas **** (1998, Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro) – Classic Movie Review 1631

Game as always for anything smart and out of the ordinary, Johnny Depp gives an impressively crazed performance as blunt-talking journalist Raoul Duke in co-writer/director Terry Gilliam’s imaginative, stylish, sometimes exciting 1998 movie of Hunter […]

Sep, 03

Guardians of the Galaxy ***** (2014, Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Lee Pace, Michael Rooker) – Movie Review

Entertainment is back! Guardians of the Galaxy is so much fun! This is the summer blockbuster we’ve been waiting for after all those boringly serious popcorn movies. Virtually a comedy, certainly a sci-fi spoof, definitely […]

Jul, 24

Traffic **** (2000, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta Jones, Benicio Del Toro) – Classic Movie Review 710

Director Steven Soderbergh’s scalding, four-Oscar-winning 2000 thriller casts Michael Douglas and his then new wife Catherine Zeta Jones together for the first time (though, alas, they share no scenes). This nail-biting, epic thriller is great, intelligent […]

Jun, 13

The Way of the Gun (2000, Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro) – Classic Film Review 963

Writer-director Christopher McQuarrie’s 2000 vicious, scalding thriller stars Ryan Phillippe and Benicio Del Toro as young petty crooks who kidnap a young woman (Juliette Lewis) and hold her for ransom. But various deadly low-lives are […]

Mar, 24

Basquiat *** (1996, David Bowie, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Jeffrey Wright, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Wincott, Courtney Love, Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe) – Classic Movie Review 816

Artist Julian Schnabel’s 1996 portrait of the New York art scene of the 80s and Jean-Michel Basquiat in particular, who in 1981 is propelled from an unknown 19-year-old graffiti writer into a rich and much-courted famous […]

Feb, 09

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