Chris Tucker in THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997) feels like he crash-landed from another dimension. Every character is trying to survive the plot while Ruby Rhod is busy turning the entire movie into his own show. Somehow it works perfectly.
The clock tower climax in The Great Mouse Detective (1986) is pure tension. Basil and Ratigan racing through Big Ben as those massive gears grind and snap around them. Disney turned a kids movie finale into a full-blown thriller.
Michael Caine said, "I'm going to play this movie like I'm working with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I will never wink, I will never do anything Muppety. I am going to play Scrooge as if it is an utterly dramatic role.”
With 2025 coming to a close we are now halfway through the 2020s. So I decided to make a little tribute, just for fun, to the films that have filled the first half of this decade.
In 1971, Tina Turner delivered one of her most electrifying performances of “Come Together” at the legendary Olympia Theatre in Paris, captured on the live album Live in Paris, Olympia, 1971.
By then, the song had become a centerpiece of Ike & Tina Turner’s shows, perfectly suited to Tina’s magnetic stage persona. Dressed in her signature fringed mini dress, she prowled the stage with explosive energy, whipping her hair, driving the band forward with commanding vocals that turned the Beatles’ cool, laid-back groove into a ferocious soul-rock explosion.
Backed by the tight rhythm section of the Kings of Rhythm and the spirited Ikettes, the 1971 performance highlighted the raw chemistry between Tina and the band.