Gary Garrison, Author at The Playlist

Breaking Down Al Pacino & Robert De Niro’s Coffee Shop Scene From Michael Mann’s ‘Heat’

January 16, 2017 9:05 am

It’s been two decades since “Heat” came out, and quite frankly there are few other movies from 1995 that people are still talking about. Which, if for some unholy reason you still haven’t seen it, certainly sho...

Studio Ghibli’s ‘Ocean Waves’ Has Aged Around The Edges, But Remains A Poignant Affair [Review]

Gary Garrison

December 30, 2016 10:16 am

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For all the awful and rot the final act of 2016 has brought us, one small glimmer of cinematic hope was revealed last month with the news that Hayao Miyazaki was coming out of retirement and working on another ...

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Explore ‘The Epidemic Of Passable Movies’

Gary Garrison

December 26, 2016 1:00 am

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As the year of our lord 2016 comes to a close we here at the Playlist have taken the time to compile our various lists of the best of all things cinema. And through that lens, 2016 certainly didn’t disappoint. ...

The Differences Between ‘Die Hard’ & The Book It’s Based On

Gary Garrison

December 25, 2016 11:30 am

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Christmas movie or not, “Die Hard” has become a holiday classic, packing in all the John McClane sarcasm, explosive shoot outs, western references, “Ode To Joy” motifs, desecrated bodies, and cold-blooded murde...

Border Thriller ‘The Hollow Point’ With Ian McShane & Patrick Wilson Is Tedious And Overcooked [Review]

Gary Garrison

December 16, 2016 3:48 pm

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There has been a renaissance of great B-movie westerns of late; this year gave us Ti West’s genre bender “In A Valley Of Violence,” and last year S. Craig Zahler's (side-splittingly?) unforgettable “Bone Tomaha...

The 10 Best Opening Title Sequences Of All Time

Gary Garrison

December 9, 2016 4:58 pm

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While James Bond’s super-spy allure has been sanded down some by the nitty-gritty realism of Sam Mendes and Daniel Craig’s recent iterations, it’s pretty safe to say when someone mentions title sequences, we al...

Explore The Action-Packed Cinema Of Tony Scott

Gary Garrison

December 9, 2016 3:29 pm

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Few directors have managed to have as much of an impact on action films as the late, great Tony Scott. The filmmaker behind classics like “Top Gun,” “True Romance” and “Crimson Tide” (and younger brother to Rid...

Documentary ‘Mifune: The Last Samurai’ Is An Engaging Look At The Life Of A Legend [Review]

Gary Garrison

November 25, 2016 10:30 am

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It’s hard to talk about Toshiro Mifune without mentioning Akira Kurosawa. And it’s hard to talk about Mifune and Kurosawa without discussing their revelatory impact on cinema as we know it today. Which, in a wa...

Chronic Pain Doc ‘All The Rage’ Is A Biased Look At A Marginalized Doctor [DOC NYC Review]

Gary Garrison

November 18, 2016 12:25 pm

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Dr. John Sarno has, for many decades, been the face of a controversial movement in the medical community. As the head of the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at New York University, Sarno pioneered a p...

Doc ‘Mr. Chibbs’ Is A Minor Key Look At The Midlife Crisis Of Basketball Star Kenny Anderson [DOC NYC Review]

Gary Garrison

November 14, 2016 1:42 pm

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In 2014, former NBA All-Star Kenny Anderson traveled to North Korea with enfant terrible Dennis Rodman to play an exhibition basketball game. The event, which was billed as “basketball diplomacy,” was really ju...

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