Tag: Bruce Willis

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  The Last Boy Scout (1991)

  July 17, 2021

  1990s, Action, Crime, Drama, Drugs, Noir, Thriller

  I used to watch the Bruce Willis-Damon Wayans action flick, The Last Boy Scout (1991) repeatedly as a 15 year old, positioning it as a ‘gritty’ R 18+ rated alternative to Die Hard even though I was often rewatching a TV edit that whittled away all the F-words and excessive blood-letting. Over the successive decades,… Read.

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  Last Man Standing (1996)

  January 22, 2021

  1990s, Action, Crime, Drama, Noir, Remakes, Western

  Last Man Standing (1996), Walter Hill’s remake of Yojimbo (already remade as A Fistful Of Dollars), is almost mythical yet reductively basic. Set in a ghost town named Jericho that nobody else lives in except for two gangs fighting over the same turf, a state of purgatory only destabilised by the arrival of a gun-for-hire… Read.