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Radiator Heaven

http://rheaven.blogspot.com/

In-depth film articles and reviews

• Added on: Apr 7th, 2008
• Country: Canada
• Language: English

• Author: J.D.
• Listed in: Film Cinema
• Tags: Cinema movies film reviews filmmakers cult films

Recent Posts

• DVD of the Week: The Ice Storm: Criterion Collection

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 09:53 in DVD, drama, Christina Ricci, Tobey Maguire, 1990s, elijah wood, sigourney weaver, ang lee, joan allen, kevin kline

  Director Ang Lee has had a fascinatingly diverse career. He’s tried his hand at the literary adaptation with Sense and Sensibility (1995), the Civil War epic with Ride with the Devil (1999), a period martial arts tale with Crouching Tiger, Hidden D...

• Nixon

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 13:24 in politics, anthony hopkins, epic, 1990s, oliver stone, biopic, joan allen, paul sorvino, james woods, j.t. walsh

  Oliver Stone’s film, Nixon (1995) portrays the American political process as an unpredictable system that politicians have no hope of ever fully controlling. The best they can do is keep it in check most of the time. This theory can be seen in its ...

• DVD of the Week: Blue Chips

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 10:53 in DVD, 1990s, william friedkin, nick nolte, shaquille o’neal, sports movie, j.t. walsh

  Oh, how the mighty have fallen. In the 1970s, director William Friedkin was at the peak of his powers. The one-two punch of The French Connection (1971) and The Exorcist (1973) made him a force to be reckoned with. And then, he made Sorcerer (1977), ...

• Strange Invaders

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 07:14 in science fiction, comedy, aliens, 1980s, bill condon, paul le mat, nancy allen, diana scarwid, michael laughlin

  The early to mid-1980s saw a resurgence in alien invasion films like The Thing (1982), The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (1984), and Invaders from Mars (1986) that were either remakes of or homages to science films from the 1950s. Strange Invaders (1...

• DVD of the Week: Wings of Desire: Criterion Collection

  Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 07:53 in DVD, Romance, Germany, drama, 1980s, peter falk, wim wenders, bruno ganz, otto sander, solveig dommartin

  If Paris, Texas (1984) firmly established German filmmaker Wim Wenders on the international art house cinema scene, then Wings of Desire (1987) reinforced his status as one of the world’s premier visual storytellers. Not only is the film an impress...

• Two-Lane Blacktop

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 08:35 in 1970s, james taylor, road movie, warren oates, dennis wilson, monte hellman, rudolph wurlitzer, laurie bird

  In anticipation of its release later that year, Esquire magazine ran a substantial piece on Two-Lane Blacktop, boldly proclaiming it to be the best film of 1971. Despite such high praise from a prestigious periodical, the studio refused to promote th...

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Jeremy Richey

J.D.'s blog is a real pleasure. Informative, interesting with really sharp writing, Radiator Heaven has become a favorite stop.

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