Oliver Stone gingerly threw out a screenplay by the infinitely more talented Quentin Tarantino so he could recreate Natural Born Killers in his own odious, obnoxious, insufferable image.
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People made fun of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps for having a dumb subtitle but they should mock it for being laughably terrible.
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One legendary asshole pays reverent, insufferable tribute to another.
Hoo boy. This one was tough.
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Hal Ashby made the big leap from hotshot editor to director with the lovely and charming 1970 comedy-drama The Landlord and ended with the 1986 cop drama 8 Million Ways to Die.
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My patron-funded look at Oliver Stone’s complete filmography ends on an anti-climactic note, with 2016’s deeply underwhelming Snowden.
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W. was wildly irrelevant at the time of its release. It’s only gotten more embarrassing and cartoonish in the ensuing years.
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My patron-funded exploration of the complete filmography hits 2004’s Alexander, a wildly ambitious historical epic that's just kind of meh.
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My patron-funded exploration of the films of Oliver Stone continues with a look at his adaptation of my old TV buddy John Ridley’s Stray Dogs entitled U-Turn.
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My patron-funded jaunt through the films of Oliver Stone continues with the bad boy auteur’s riveting, messy three-hour plus exploration of the life, times and crimes of Richard Nixon. Featuring every character actor ever!
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Oliver Stone toned down the provocation for 2006’s World Trade Center, which is underwhelming in a decidedly different way than most of his films.
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