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Last Vegas (2013)

Last Vegas review film

Star Power is very important to a lot of Hollywood movies. Famous names usually guarantee a lot of people wanting to head to the cinema. Looking at Last Vegas it has heaps of them: Morgan Freeman, Robert de Niro, Michael Douglas and Kevin Kline. These men are all Oscar winners, so no reason to doubt their acting abilities. As these men are all getting older it is not a strange choice to make a comedy which makes fun of their age. Other older actors have done the same in the past (examples are Al Pacino and Christopher Walken in Stand Up Guys, but also the fatehr of Michael Douglas did this in Tough Guys in 1986). Do these men succeed in providing the laughs? Continue reading →

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Behind the Candelabra (2013)

Behind the Candelabra review with Matt Damon and Michael Douglas

During the high point of his career pianist Liberace was the highest paid entertainer in the world. His shows, just as his outfits, were extravagant and flamboyant. He was extremely popular and kept his public image under control. He made sure that nobody saw his private side as he knew that if people knew he was gay that he would lose a big part of his fans. With Behind the Candelabra director Steven Soderbergh looks into that private life. Continue reading →

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The Many Faces of… Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas was born on September 25, 1944 in New Brunswick, New Jersey and is the son of actor Kirk Douglas. His parents broke up when he was six and he started living with his mother. He attended Eaglebrook school in Deerfield, Massachusetts and decided he wanted to be an actor when he was in his teens. Although his father didn’t want him to go into acting, but Michael persisted and had to prove that he was a different actor compared to his father.

He started his career in the sixties, appearing in movies and TV shows. He starred in The Streets of San Francisco (1972-1976) as Inspector Steve Keller. His big breakthrough came when he appeared in Romancing the Stone after which he starred in movies like Fatal Attraction, Wall Street, Falling Down and Basic Instinct. Continue reading →

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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009)

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt review

It’s been a while since I saw a Michael Douglas movie I enjoyed. A while ago a DVD store near me had a big sale and going through stack and stacks of DVDs trying to find my personal treasures I found Beyond a Resonable Doubt. The cover looked cool, it had Michael Douglas in it and it seemed to be a courtroom drama. Worth seeing right? Continue reading →