Movies starring William Forsythe

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

229 mins     Crime, Drama, Mystery      

Watching "Once Upon a Time in America" is a daunting task, partly because at 11 minutes shy of 4 hours it takes up a sizeable chunk of your day. But it is also daunting because in those 229 minutes there is so much detail tha...

Out for Justice (1991)

91 mins     Action , Crime, Thriller      

After a day of watching supposedly good movies which only end up disappointing one thing will guarantee to entertain me, that is Steven Seagal. A Steven Seagal movie is nothing special, they work to a formula and in more rece...

Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story (1992)

90 mins     Drama, Thriller, TV Movie      

Movie Review - Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story (1992) true story movie starring Lesley Ann Warren as Wanda Holloway who to get her own daughter on the cheerleading squad pays for another mother, Verna (Tess Harpe...

Virtuosity (1995)

106 mins     Action , Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller      

Before Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe wowed audiences with the epic "American Gangster" they had in fact worked together back in 1995 on sci-fi thriller "Virtuosity". The reason most people fail to remember "Virtuosity" ...

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)

115 mins     Crime, Drama      

The early 1990s saw Quentin Tarantino shoot to fame with his own quirky, snappy style of movie making and unsurprisingly it saw other directors both emulating him and trying to do things a little bit different. It brings me t...

The Rock (1996)

136 mins     Action , Drama, Thriller      

The first of 3 consecutive action movies for Nicolas Cage "The Rock" sees Nicolas Cage as biochemist Standely Goodspeed who ends up part of a crack force sent on to Alcatraz island to stop General Hummel (Ed Harris) from firi...

Gotti (1996)

116 mins     Biography, Crime, Drama, TV Movie      

Look, I am no expert on the Mafia, I haven't done extensive reading on the various people who have been known to be part of the family but I do love mob movies. For that reason I cannot say whether or not "Gotti", the 1996 ma...

Deuce Bigalow (1999)

85 mins     Comedy      

Somehow I managed to unintentionally miss "Deuce Bigalow" when it was released and for several years after. But having watched many of Adam Sandler's movies, and seen Rob Schneider living in his shadows as a supporting actor,...

Blue Streak (1999)

93 mins     Action , Comedy, Crime      

What is your opinion of Martin Lawrence? My opinion is that he has always been in the shadow of Eddie Murphy, doing movies which have unfortunately caused comparison. That is the case of "Blue Streak" because whilst it has an...

Blue Hill Avenue (2001)

128 mins     Crime      

I could sum up by saying "Blue Hill Avenue" is an African-American take on "Once Upon a Time in America" but with "Goodfellas" styling. For those who don't know what that means it means we have the old as time storyline about...

City by the Sea (2002)

108 mins     Crime, Drama, Mystery      

Based upon a true story "City by the Sea" is a movie which has three things going on and depending on which one you follow will result in whether you enjoy it or not. There is this story of a Manhattan cop finding himself on ...

Freedomland (2006)

113 mins     Crime, Drama, Mystery      

That synopsis of "Freedomland" makes it sound like a thriller about a missing child which embellishes the central storyline with one of racial tension. But in truth "Freedomland" ends up less about being a missing child thril...

Halloween (2007)

109 mins     Horror      

John Carpenter's "Halloween" may not be the greatest movie ever made but it's a horror movie which helped define the whole slasher genre and as such it's one of those movies which to me is untouchable. But then my opinion doe...

The Rig (2010)

90 mins     Action , Horror, Sci-Fi      

Movie Review - The Rig (2010) when a skeleton crew is left to keep an offshore drilling rig operational during a storm they find themselves under attack from a deadly creature...

Dear Mr. Gacy (2010)

103 mins     Crime, Drama, Thriller      

At some point in my early life I must have heard the name John Wayne Gacy but as I have mentioned before I am a Brit born at the start of the 70s and as such the Gacy story, if you don't mind me putting it that way, pretty mu...