This feature of John Logan's play about abstract artist Mark Rothko sees Molina taking center stage as the complicated, aging painter. Set over 1958 and 1959, the play traces Rothko's relationship with his assistant as he works on large commercial pieces for the Four Seasons ho
Ever since Harrison Ford strode onto the silver screen with a fedora on his head, a bullwhip at his side, and a satchel slung over his shoulder, Indy has been one of cinema’s most beloved and recognizable ico
Luc Besson’s Léon: The Professional offers a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a contract killer . Jean Reno stars as the titular hitman, who takes his 12-year-old neighbor Mathilda (Natalie Portman) under his wing when her entire family is killed by a corrupt DEA agent (Gary Oldm
I think that I just had a feel for her from the very beginning. I think I just love stepping into her shoes, so to speak. She's a very vibrant, bold, survivor - she's kind of an independent character and everything I aspire to be. So, it was quite a wonderful invitation to me to play a character like that. I've never punched anyone in the jaw in my entire life, and I probably will go to my grave without ever hitting anyone in the face. But I just love her boldness. I love that she, even in a situation like that, was able to speak fully the pain and disappointment and anger that she felt towards him is such a direct way. Not that I condone violence, but in the film it definitely had an impact; she's seeing him for the first time in 10 years, and her responses to just take a swing at
A good example of this in Raiders of the Lost Ark is the prologue where Indy steals an idol from an indigenous tribe because his museum probably needed a new attraction . Even the Ark of the Covenant wasn’t spared, which by the end is just stashed somewhere in Area 51 despite it being a literal Biblical superwea
Molina plays the doctor in the desert village where James's character Bishop resides, and Bishop's long-lost buds are played by the likes of Jean-Claude Van Damme and Grant Bowler. Swelter fails to deliver anything new, different, or compell
While Indy is trying to hijack a German plane, he’s interrupted by a mechanic challenging him to a fight on the runway. Despite sizing up the mechanic and determining him to be way too big for him to win, Indy puts up the best fight he
An action movie is perfectly passable if it has a couple of fistfights and explosions and a wisecracking hero, but the very best movies that the genre has to offer go above and beyond with visceral camerawork, breathtaking stunts, and sharp storytelling driven by action. Directors like John Woo and James Cameron have brought an artfulness to action cinema that legitimized the ge
While it takes place a few years before global war broke out, Raiders of the Lost Ark was still made with World War II firmly lodged in its mind. As if the Nazis didn’t make things obvious enough, Indy and his friends represent the Allied Forces that would later team up to end the
So, it was brought up to where I was working on a film in Northern California. It got brought up, and I had to read it in my hotel room with a courier sitting there, waiting for me to finish - and then I had to give it back to him. They took the script away, and I didn't read it for another two or three weeks or something, until they offered me the role. I accepted, and then they sent me anothet version of the script. But I was pretty bowled over when I read the script. I mean, it was the most fantastical story on paper. I don't know that you can do a film like Raiders of the Lost Ark justice on paper, but it was quite extraordinary to r
A common joke about Indiana Jones is how much he sucks at being an archeologist. He may know everything about ancient cultures and their histories, but he habitually destroys their places of worship every time he drops
He’s forced to surrender when Belloq calls his bluff. As much as he hates the Nazis, Indy could never destroy such a historically significant artifact. But it was still great for the audience to see this him facing down an army alone with an RPG slung over his shoul
One of the most prized gems in the Amblin crown, Richard Donner’s The Goonies follows a group of down-on-their-luck suburban kids who decide to spend their last weekend together following a treasure map to a pirate’s lost fort
One of Indy’s best friends is Sallah, a fellow archeologist and excavator who’s known for his jovial attitude. He’s also an Egyptian who’s portrayed by the Welsh actor John Rhys-Davies in both Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusa
Spielberg seemingly acknowledged this as proven by his Holocaust drama Schindler’s List and the works that followed. No longer were Nazis depicted as silly bad guys for someone to beat up. Instead, they were shown in all of their monstrosity and inhuman
Criticisms of Marion being a damsel in distress are invalidated by this scene. Not only does Marion manage to knock out the pilot, she also saves Indy from the mechanic by turning the plane around so the spinning propellors turn the burly German into mincem