A recent NY Mag profile on actor Matthew Modine reminded us that the Full Metal Jacket star turned down the Tom Cruise role in Top Gun because he didn’t care for the movie's jingoistic script. Hippie. Go watch Cruise and Val Kilmer kick some butt for Uncle Sam tonight in the perfect setting: the flight deck of the Intrepid, where you'll be sitting next to an actual F-14 TomCat aircraft, a military jet fighter that was made popular by the 1986 film. Details.
Click on the film stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Year One, The Proposal, Under Our Skin, The End of the Line, $9.99, Dead Snow, The Windmill Movie, Top Gun, The New York Asian Film Festival, BAMcinemaFEST, DJ Spooky’s Rebirth of a Nation, Killer's Kiss, and Splash.






As to "Year One," who is "Hollywood Elsewhere" and why do we care what they think? Especially since the Times gives it a critics pick? Just sayin...
I have tickets to whatever works since I love Larry David enough to watch pedophile Allen's movie in this case.
I wrote a few weeks ago that Woody Allen's movies haven't been good in many years. But I guess the same people who booed me down here will just dismiss Germain's criticism as well.