Gettin’ High #045: To Live And Die In L.A.

Don’t do it! From Friedkin’s underrated To Live And Die In L.A.

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The Eyes Have It #003: Waterloo

Rod Steiger works them peepers good in Sergei Bondarchuk’s flawed-but-magnificent Waterloo as that chippy Corsican.

Young, Gifted & Slack #017: Dean Norris

An early (1993) outing for Dean Norris – later the iconic DEA agent Hank in Breaking Bad – as a scientist in RJR Nabisco’s tobacco division in the witty TV movie about the company’s leveraged buyout, Barbarians At The Gate.

BOOM! #011: Kill The Irishman

Another day in Cleveland, another gangland car bombing. From 2011’s biopic about mobster Danny Greene, Kill The Irishman.

Brandtastic #002: For Queen And Country

Ah, For Queen And Country: featuring the best worst London accent deployed by an American since Dick Van Dyke (and preceding Forest Whitaker in The Crying Game by four years), Denzel Washington’s first big role (if, erm, you exclude 1988’s multiple Oscar/Golden Globe/BAFTA-nominated Cry Freedom) has him as a Commonwealth-born Falklands veteran leaving the army and becoming thoroughly disillusioned with Thatcher’s Britain.

Possibly this made things a bit tricky for the cross-marketing guys; the best they could manage was a bit of product placement involving a crippled ex-squaddie (Dorian Healy) taking a slash whilst taking swigs from a can of Tennent’s Super. Because you’re worth it.

WTF?! #001: It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia (S4E6)

Seriously, Frank, just what were you thinking?

From the fourth season of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.

Aqua #001: The Hunter (2011)

Hired gun Martin David (Willem Dafoe) makes the best of some thinking time in the bath in excellently low-key thriller The Hunter.