CHERRY (2021)

 

Directed by: Joe Russo & Anthony Russo  Written By: Jessica Goldenberg & Angela Russo-Otstot  Based On The Novel By: Nico Walker  Cinematography: Newton Thomas Sigel Editor: Jeff Groth

Cast: Tom Holland, Ciara Bravo, Jack Reynor, Forrest Goodluck, Jeff Wahlberg, Michael Rispoli, Michael Gandolfini, Damon Wayans Jr. Kelli Burland, Daniel R. Hill, Pooch Hall, Thomas Lennon

Cherry drifts from college dropout to army medic in Iraq - anchored only by his true love, Emily. But after returning from the war with PTSD, his life spirals into drugs and crime as he struggles to find his place in the world.

EXTRACTION (2020)

Directed By: Sam Hargrave
Written By: Joe Russo
Based On A Story By: Joe Russo, Anthony Russo & Ande Parks
Based on the Graphic Novel “Ciudad” By: Ande Parks
Cinematography: Newton Thomas Sigel
Editor: Ruthie Aslan & Peter B. Ellis

Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Golshifteh Farahani, Adam Bessa, Rudhraksh Jaiswal, David Harbour

In an underworld of weapons dealers and traffickers, a young boy becomes the pawn in a war between notorious drug lords. Trapped by kidnappers inside one of the world's most impenetrable cities, his rescue beckons the unparalleled skill of a mercenary named Tyler Rake, but Rake is a broken man with nothing to lose, harboring a death wish that makes an already deadly mission near impossible.

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (2018)

Directed By: Bryan Singer 
Written By: Anthony McCarten 
Story By: Peter Morgan & Anthony McCarten 
Cinematography: Newton Thomas Sigel 
Editor: John Ottoman 


Cast: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Joseph Mazzello, Mike Myers, Tom Hollander, Aiden Gillen, Ben Hardy, Gwilym Lee, Allen Leech 

The story of the legendary rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid.

JEFF OF THE CINEFILES & UNFINISHED BUSINESS: HALL OF FAME: FILE #0054: CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND (2002)

Directed By: George Clooney 
Written By: Charlie Kaufman 
Based on the Novel By: Chuck Barris 
Cinematography By: Newtom Thomas Sigel 
Editor: Stephen Mirrione 


Cast: Sam Rockwell, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Drew Barrymore, Rugter Hauer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Cera, Robert John Burke, Rachelle Lefevre, Jerry Weintraub, Richard Kind, James Urbaniak 


Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" is the story of a legendary showman's double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

BROKEDOWN PALACE (1999)

Directed By: Jonathan Kaplan 
Written By: David Arata 
Story By: David Arata & Adam Fields 
Cinematography By: Newton Thomas Sigel 
Editor: Curtiss Clayton 


Cast: Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Pullman, Lou Diamond Phillips, Jaqueline Kim, John Doe, Tom Amandes, Daniel Lapaine, Aimee Graham, Amanda DeCadent 


Alice and Darlene, best friends, decide to take a trip to Thailand to celebrate high-school graduation. While there, they are befriended by charming Australian rogue Nick Parks. Nick convinces them to take a weekend side trip to Hong Kong, but at the airport, they are busted for smuggling drugs. They are convicted in a show trial and sentenced to 33 years; in desperation, they contact Yankee Hank, an American lawyer based in Thailand who has been reported to be helpful if you've got the cash.

MARSHALL (2017)

Directed By: Reginald Hudlin 
Written By: Josh Kaskoff & Michael Kaskoff 
Cinematography By: Newton Thomas Sigel 
Editor: Tom McArdle 


Cast: Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Sterling K. Brown, Dan Stevens, Kate Hudson, Sophia Bush, Jussie Smollett, James Cromwell, Keesha Sharp, Roger Guenveur Smith, Ahna O’Reilly, Rozanda “Chilli” Thomas, Jeffrey DeMunn 


About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.

MONEY FOR NOTHING (1993)

Directed By: Ramon Menendez 
Written By: Ramon Menendez, Tom Musca & Carol Lebowski 
Based on an article By: Mark Bowden 
Cinematography By: Newton Thomas Sigel 
Editor: Nancy Richardson 


Cast: John Cusack, Debi Mazar, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Rapaport, Michael Madsen, Maury Chaykin, James Gandolfini, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Frankie Faison, Fionnula Flanagan 

When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash.


 *Please note that some trivia and facts have been republished from imdb among other sources In this review

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE (2016)

Directed By: Bryan Singer 
Written By: Simon Kinberg 
Story By: Simon Kinberg, Dan Harris, Bryan Singer & Michael Dougherty 
Cinematography By: Newton Thomas Sigel 
Editor: Michael Louis Hill & John Ottoman 



Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Issac, Sophie Turner, Nicholas Hault, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Evan Peters, Olivia Munn, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ben Hardy, Lucas Till, Josh Helman, Ally Sheedy