January 16, 2014: Escape from L.A. (1996)
Cast and Crew: John Carpenter (Director); Kurt Russell, Steve Buscemi, Pam Grier, Peter Fonda What It’s About: In 1998 — the year after the events of Escape from New York (1981) — a huge earthquake...
View ArticleJune 4, 2014: Slap Shot (1977)
Slap Shot is the story of a struggling hockey team, the Charlestown Chiefs, in a struggling league (modeled on the NAHL, which were the minors for the World Hockey Association, which attempted to...
View ArticleOctober 12, 2014: Mostly Martha a.k.a. Bella Martha (2001)
Here at the League of Dead Films, we like BEER! In fact, I’m willing to bet that if we changed things up and started reviewing a different beer every day, we would have just as much insight and wisdom...
View ArticleOctober 14, 2014: Hackers (1995)
Cast and Crew: Ian Softley (Director), Simon Boswell (Music); Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie What It’s About: Ever wonder what life was like in high school — other than at Beverly Hills High — while,...
View ArticleDecember 31, 2014: Strange Days (1995)
Strange Days is a disturbing dystopian vision of the near future from 1995. The anarchic 1999 Los Angeles it depicts is an over-the-top depraved riot of leather and goth and Sony MiniDiscs. With...
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