Tag Archives: assassination

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

Posted on January 15, 2022 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Joel Coen Writer: Joel Coen (Based on the play “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare)

Posted in Drama, Thriller, War | Tagged 2021, adaptation, alex hassell, assassin, assassination, bertie carvel, black and white, brendan gleeson, bruno delbonnel, carter burwell, corey hawkins, denzel washington, drama, frances mcdormand, garry melling, history, joel coen, kathryn hunter, kind, lady macbeth, lucian johnston, macbeth, miles anderson, murder, play, power, reginald jaynes, robert graf, scotland, scottish, shakespeare, theater, thriller, tragedy, treason, war, william shakespeare, witch, witches | Leave a comment

The American Friend (1977)

Posted on August 12, 2021 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Wim Wenders Writer: Wim Wenders (Based on the novel “Ripley’s Game” by Patricia Highsmith) First time watch. Loved it. One of my favorite new watches of the year.

Posted in Crime, Drama, Foreign, Thriller | Tagged 1977, adaptation, art, artist, assass, assassination, auction, bruno ganz, contract killer, crime, dennis hopper, drama, dying, foreign, forger, forgery, france, gerard blain, germany, Hitman, Joachim von mengershausen, jurgen knieper, killer, leukemia, lisa kreuzer, murder, new york, new york city, nicholas ray, paris, patricia highsmith, peter przygodda, ripley, ripley's game, robby muller, samuel fuller, terminal illness, thriller, tom ripley, train, wim wenders | Leave a comment

The Conformist (1970)

Posted on July 29, 2021 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci Writer: Bernardo Bertolucci (Based on the novel by Alberto Moravia)

Posted in Drama, Foreign | Tagged 1930s, 1970, adaptation, assassin, assassination, bernardo bertolucci, confession, coward, dominique sanda, drama, Fascism, fascist, foreign, france, georges delerue, giovanni bertolucci, honeymoon, Il conformista, italian, italy, Jean-Louis Trintignant, maurizio lodi-fe, murder, mussolini, paris, pierre clementi, political, politics, professor, rome, sex, stefania sandrelli, teacher, vittorio storaro, weak | Leave a comment

Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning

Posted on July 25, 2021 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: John Hyams Writers: John Hyams & Doug Magnuson and Jon Greenhalgh (Story by John Hyams and Moshe Diamant (Based on characters created by Richard Rothstein & Christopher Leitch and Dean Devlin) Another solid DTV Universal Soldier sequel. Very impressed … Continue reading →

Posted in Action, Adventure, Science Fiction | Tagged 2012, andrei arlovski, andrew drazek, assassin, assassination, christopher leitch, clone, clones, coma, craig baumgarten, Day of Reckoning, dean devlin, dolph lundgren, family, fbi, fight, jcvd, jean-claude van damme, john hyams, jon greenhalgh, machete, michael krassner, mind control, moshe diamant, murder, rebel, rebellion, richard rothstein, roy jones jr., scott adkins, sequel, soldier, universal soldier, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, wil hendricks, yaron levy | Leave a comment

The Parallax View (1974)

Posted on April 2, 2021 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Alan J. Pakula Writers: David Giler and Lorenzo Semple Jr. (Based on the novel by Loren Singer) First time seeing this. Great!

Posted in Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Tagged adaptation, alan j. pakula, assassin, assassination, bomb, conspiracy, crime, david giler, drama, gordon willis, hume cronyn, investigation, john w. wheeler, journalism, journalist, loren singer, lorenzo semple jr., michael small, murder, mystery, newspaper, paula prentiss, politician, politics, robert towne, seattle, senator, sniper, space needle, the parallax view, thriller, warren beatty, william daniels, witness | Leave a comment

The Day of the Dolphin (1973)

Posted on March 10, 2021 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Mike Nichols Writer: Buck Henry (Based on the novel by Robert Merle)

Posted in Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller | Tagged 1973, adaptation, animal, assassination, boat, bomb, buck henry, dolphin, drama, edward herrmann, fritz weaver, george c. scott, georges delerue, marine biologist, mike nichols, murder, paul sorvino, robert e. relyea, robert merle, sam o'steen, sci-fi, science, science fiction, scientist, talking animal, The Day of the Dolphin, thriller, trish van devere, william a. fraker, yacht | Leave a comment

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

Posted on February 14, 2021 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Shaka King Writers: Will Gerson & Shaka King (Story by Will Gerson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas) Good! Kaluuya and Stanfield are great.