Tag: Gene Hackman
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Gene Hackman: A Retrospective on the Greatest – A Film Review Friday Special Presentation
“You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, ‘Why didn’t I choose something else?’ But overall, I’m pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.” For a long while I’ve considered Gene Hackman to be the greatest…
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The Firm – Film Review Fridays
The Firm (1993) dir. Sydney Pollack “It’s not sexy, but it’s got teeth!” While the 21st century has seen its share of legal thrillers with 2023’s Academy Award winning Anatomy of a Fall, 2007’s Michael Clayton, and 2019’s criminally underseen Dark Waters it was in the 1990’s where legal thrillers made their mark on the…