Brian Helgeland – Movie Mavericks Podcast

Payback (1999) – Review

February 12, 2019February 14, 2019 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1999, Bill Duke, Brian Helgeland, Kara Unger, Maria Bello, mel gibson, Payback, William Devane

Payback is a somewhat forgotten flick in Mel Gibson’s lengthy film canon. It’s a mean, violent, intense and immeasurably entertaining

L.A. Confidential (1997) – Review

December 16, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1997, Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson, danny devito, David Strathairn, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, kevin spacey, Kim Basinger, L.A. Confidential, Russell Crowe

L.A. Confidential is a companion piece to Chinatown in terms of tone, subject, and amoral characters. There are no likable

Drama Family Featured Reviews

42 (2013) – Review

May 1, 2013May 1, 2013 Jason Rugaard 3 Comments 2013, 42, Ali, Andre Holland, baseball, Brian Helgeland, Chadwick Boseman, Christopher Meloni, Glory Road, Hamish Linklater, harrison ford, Lucas Black, Nicole Beharie, Remember the Titans, the hurricane

42 rests comfortably between the lite touch sentimental schmaltz of Disney’s Glory Road or Remember the Titans, and the angry

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Man on Fire (2004) – Review

September 6, 2011December 29, 2015 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2004, A.J. Quinnell, Brian Helgeland, Christopher Walken, Dakota Fanning, Denzel Washington, Giancarlo Giannini, man on fire, Marc Anthony, mickey rourke, Rachel Ticotin, radha mitchell, revenge, Spy Game, tony scott

Set in Mexico City (five years before the violence there would start getting media attention) Man on Fire is the