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disease · 7 months

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RON SILVER / "FRANCIS BACON" / 2019 [oil on raw stretched canvas | 24 x 24"]

#ron silver #surreal #painting #contemporary art #francis bacon #art #u

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genevieveetguy · 8 months

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. It doesn't matter whether you work in plutonium or dog food because they ain't gonna give you a thing, there's nowhere left to go! You close this plant down and then what? You're gonna be up in Washington, but we're gonna be down here outta work! Your cancer's a maybe, that's all it is, a maybe…

Silkwood, Mike Nichols (1983)

#Mike Nichols #Nora Ephron #Alice Arlen #Meryl Streep #Kurt Russell #Cher #Craig T. Nelson #Diana Scarwid #Fred Ward #Ron Silver #Charles Hallahan #Josef Sommer #Sudie Bond #Bruce McGill #David Strathairn #Miroslav Ondrícek #Georges Delerue #Sam O'Steen #1983

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brokehorrorfan · 7 months

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Blue Steel will be released on Blu-ray on November 14 via Lionsgate. The 1990 action thriller is spine #31 in the Vestron Video Collector’s Series.

Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Near Dark) directs from a script she co-wrote with Eric Red (The Hitcher, Near Dark). Jamie Lee Curtis stars with Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña, Louise Fletcher, and Tom Sizemore.

Blue Steel is presented in high definition with 2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by film historian Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Interview with editor Lee Percy

Interview with production designer Toby Corbett

The Phallic Woman: Deconstructing Blue Steel - Featurette with film historian Jennifer Moorman

A Profound Emotional Response – Video essay by film historian Chris O'Neill

Theatrical trailer

TV spots

Vintage promo

Still gallery

Newly minted NYPD officer Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) responds to a grocery store robbery – and kills the perpetrator – her first day on the job. But Megan’s uncorroborated story of the shooting gets her suspended from active duty when the stickup gun mysteriously vanishes. Enter a charming-but-disturbed commodities trader (Ron Silver), whose obsession with Megan threatens to destroy everything she holds dear, pushing her into a desperate fight to salvage her reputation… and save her own life.

Pre-order Blue Steel.

#blue steel #ron silver #clancy brown #kathryn bigelow #elizabeth pena #louise fletcher #eric red #vestron video #dvd #gift #90s movies #1990s movies #action thriller #action movies #tom sizmore

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laserpinksteam · 1 month

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Film after film: The Entity (dir. Sidney J. Furie, 1982)

#filmafterfilm #the 1980s #the entity #sidney j. furie #barbara hershey #ron silver #david labiosa

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chaptertwo-thepacnw · 9 months

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rhoda |1978|

#gif #rhoda #julie kavner #ron silver #1978 #disco threads #classic television #1970s

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adamwatchesmovies · 2 months

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Timecop (1994)

I think we’ve finally done it: we’ve found a good Jean-Claude Van Damme movie. While Timecop may have more than a few logical shortcomings, it delivers what you want from a mid-90s action film and unlike Bloodsport or Double Impact, this is the kind of picture you’d watch as a kid, revisit years later and find it still (mostly) holds up.

In 1994, we've developed the ability to travel through time. This prompts the Justice Department to establish the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) to stop temporal criminals from altering the future. As police officer Max Walker (Van Damme) debates joining the force, he is ambushed outside his home and his wife (Mia Sara) is murdered. Ten years later, Max discovers that the man in charge of the TEC, Senator Aaron McComb (Ron Silver), has been blackmailing agents to set himself up as the next president of the United States.

Timecop begins with a cool premise. Anyone who’s seen a big company start from nothing has thought “What if I could go back and invest in them when their stocks were cheap?” From there, you can just picture the kind of scenes we'll get: as TEC agents rush to preserve the present while future weapons blast through speakeasies, time travelers pretend they're fortune tellers, etc.

Another strength is the film’s self-awareness. In any other movie, Max would have to figure out who the puppet master behind his wife’s murder and the blackmailing is, only finding out during the second or third act. This is despite the audience taking one look at Ron Silver and screaming “Guilty!” In Timecop, Max learns Senator McComb is dirty immediately. The problem is that time travel is such a powerful ability that you can’t just go and arrest him. If Max makes one wrong move, someone might travel back to 1994 and have him erased! Not that the film is all that cerebral. In fact, the time travel is a block of Swiss cheese compared to what we saw in Terminator 2 (released three years earlier).

The appealing premise of Timecop and the easily-fixable flaws make it a prime target for a remake. An example of a logical hole that needs filling is the TEC itself. There is more than one scene where Max returns from the past to find the future altered. He’s never briefed to find out if his (supposedly successful) mission has completely mangled history. Another flaw is the time travel mechanism itself. When you go to the past, you hop onto this high-speed canister thing that fires itself forward on rails. To return, you use a device you can carry on your person. Either make it consistent or explain why we have both. Finally - and this is going to hurt the Muscles from Brussel’s fans - there's Van Damme. He’s… fine in terms of conveying emotion but several action scenes feel like they’ve been inserted purely to show off the man's ability to do the splits or his muscles.

While Timecop doesn’t explore its time travel premise to the fullest and it doesn't take much effort to find an aspect of it that doesn't hold up, you could say that about many pictures featuring someone traveling to the past. The bad guys are sufficiently slimy and dispatched in memorable ways. The film understands what you want to see and then delivers. Sometimes, that’s enough. (November 12, 2021)

#timecop #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #Peter Hyams #Mark Verheiden #Mike Richardson #Jean-Claude Van Damme #Ron Silver #Mia Sara #1994 movies #1994 films

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vsthepomegranate · 1 year

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The Entity (1982)

by Sidney J. Furie

#1980s movies #horror #barbara hershey #ron silver

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90smovies · 2 years

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#Blue Steel #Blue Steel 1990 #Kathryn Bigelow #Jamie Lee Curtis #Ron Silver #Elizabeth Peña #Clancy Brown #Eric Red #90s

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nerds-yearbook · 1 year

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In 1994, the TEC (Time Enforcement Commission) is created to regulate time travel and prevent time abuse. The Aaron McComb of that time is met by his future self (who is running for President) from 2004 who gives him important financial advice. The wife of one of the first time cops is murdered. Walker (the cop) from the future learns she was pregnant and attempts to prevent her murder. (Time Cop, flm)

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theactioneer · 2 years

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“In the futuristic thriller TIMECOP, JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME (left) stars as Max Walker, a Time Enforcement Agent who undertakes a mission to prevent Senator Aaron McComb (RON SILVER) from changing the course of history.”

#jean-claude van damme #jcvd #ron silver #timecop #black and white #publicity photo #90s action movies #scifi

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anhed-nia · 2 years

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Ron Silver's brand of creepy intensity always makes me think he made a whole career out of cosplaying Martin Scorsese's cameo in TAXI DRIVER. So when this scene in THE ENTITY comes up, my brain always completes the line "Do you know what liquid helium can do to a woman's pussy?!"