Andy Garcia

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
$9.99
When you think about the great gangster films it is truly sad that this little gem doesn't come to most people's minds. Riding a great screenplay that mixes solemn topics with biting satire this film takes the viewer on a journey that bobs and weaves through a city not known for the greatest journeys. Check out this one of a kind film.

Desperate Measures
$9.95
Here's an underrated suspense movie that's good. It's "good" in that fact it delivers what it promises: suspense. I'm sure there are a number of holes in this far-fetched tale but it's fun to watch nevertheless.

Michael Keaton is almost mesmerizing in his role as the sick killer. There is some decent action in here, too, but suspense is the name of this game. Once you've started in, it's very difficult to put down. Andy Garcia and Marcia Gay Hayden turn in solid performances as well.

It was nice to see a tough-but-loving father (Garcia) go to any lengths to save his kid. Speaking of the kid (Joseph Cross), they show this very little soft-spoken boy that is trying be saved and all of sudden he says the word "a-hole." What is the purpose of inserting that? Only in the world of film!

The Lost City
$18.98
The Lost City... awsome awsome music and the movie was very well done as well. Highly recommended

Modigliani
$26.99
The cinematography and sets were great, but the movie as a whole is a train wreck. (I also have to give great credit to the actors for giving their all.)
But in the spirit of art criticism, continue on; you may evolve into a more authentic film artist.
Who wrote this story? The same commitee who writes One Life To Live, or All My Children?
A visual artist friend brought this DVD over, along with another fictionalized version of Los Angeles skateboarding in the 60's. As with the Modigliani movie, it was all cliche', trash talking, drugs, violence, and general soap opera.
Modigliani, the movie, could have been a really interesting movie if the writers had made it in documentary form as Dog Town the skate board documentay movie was, which was great, with actual photos of the
subject individuals, places where they performed, etc. But no, they had to trash it up with over-dramatized versions of all the characters, unrealistic ways art shows work, etc.
Recently I watched the Clint Eastwood movie on Johnny Mercer; in documentary form. It is wonderful, with great historical photos of the people in the creative part of popular music from the 30's through the 70's. Johnny Mercer apparently was a mean drunk, but not self destructive like Modigliani.
I personally am sick of watching soap opera forms of dysfunctional people and families. Not to mention all the crap on TV, a high percentage of which is about some crime scenario. Even the news channels go on for days about the latest mass shooting by some malcontent.