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Heat

Alan Rapp / April 4, 2025 / Home Video

Title: Heat
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In honor of the passing of Val Kilmer, this Flashback Friday takes us back to 1995’s tour-de-force crime drama Heat. Unquestionably Michael Mann‘s best film, Heat splits its focus between a crew of armed robbers led by Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) and the cops out to stop them led by LAPD Lieutenant Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino). No film has played both sides so well, although if I have a complaint it’s that a more ambiguous ending that faded to black on the gunshot in the weeds on the edge of Los Angeles International Airport allowing the audience to determine the winner of the pair’s struggle would seem to be more fitting.

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Good Night, Val Kilmer

Alan Rapp / April 2, 2025 / Entertainment News

Actor Val Kilmer has passed away at the age of 65. Read reviews for Val (a documentary on the man’s life and career), Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Spartan, Top Gun, Heat, Batman Forever, XIII: The Conspiracy, and Deja Vu. His filmography also includes Tombstone, The Saint, The Doors, and Real Genius.

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Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Alan Rapp / November 11, 2005 / Movie Reviews

Title: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
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Any movie that contains an argument over the phone about why someone has urinated on a dead body he finds in his hotel room shower deserves some attention. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is one of the most entertaining movies of the year. Part Hollywood satire and part dime-store novel this is great fun with terrific performances from Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer. Simply put folks, this is the best comedy of 2005.

Harry Lockhart (Robert Downey Jr.) is a small time thief who stumbles into an audition for a detective show while fleeing from the police. Whisked away to Hollywood Harry meets Perry (Val Kilmer) a gay detective who is the consultant to the show. At a party Harry also runs into Harmony Lane (Michelle Monaghan) the girl who got away so many years ago.

So far sounds like a pretty normal film right? Well here’s where things start to get interesting. Larry takes Harry on a stakeout to teach him more about detective work, but unfortunately they run into a car with a dead body. For reasons to difficult to describe here the two abandon the body only for Larry to find it in his hotel room shower early the next morning.

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