Batman Begins In terms of starting the tradition of doing fully drawn out origin stories for popular comic book superheroes, Christopher Nolan faced quite a few challenges with this 2005 release in order to mostly make it work, amongst them getting carried away above and beyond when telling a drawn out, almost minutely detailed by […]
Batman Returns Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman was a long overdue shot in the arm for the Hollywood Comic Book Film (coming as it did after the Reeve Superman Series had long since played itself out), galvanizing the industry to slowly but surely get to the point where such movies are now cranked out with startling […]
Beast Within Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining pretty much had the market cornered on the killer horror movie concept of: What if (from a child’s point of view) you witnessed your very own father transform in front of you into a deranged, bloodthirsty monster fully capable of bringing harm upon both yourself and others? Not many […]
Beavis And Butthead Do America Nothing epitomized 1990s pop culture back in that decade any moreso than Beavis And Butthead, the two heavy metal loving teenage idiots created by animator Mike Judge partly as a response to the rancid atmosphere of political correctness as imposed by the Bill Clinton Regime, taking on the system not […]
Beetlejuice The known abject lack of quality in modern day family entertainment can be chalked up to a couple of definite things, one being the complete lack of sophistication in most of these works, and the other being the failure to include (even subversively) some winks and nods for adult viewers to enjoy what they’re […]
Being John Malkovich “Hypnotic” and “Spellbinding” are words that are rarely used to accurately describe a movie in the comedy genre, but that can be the risk one runs by coming up with a concept that is so original, so bizarre, that when that concept finally sees the light of production and release as this […]
Believers Horror movies that specialize in the subjects of voodoo and occult worship are usually quite the mixed bag. For every success like Bela Lugosi’s White Zombie or Wes Craven’s Serpent And The Rainbow, there are scores of less successful or less noteworthy entries that more often than not invoke audiences into laughter rather than […]
Better Off Dead With a style that combines the anything goes comic madness of the ZAZ boys with the absurdist surrealism of Luis Bunuel, then mixed together in its own unique 80s blender, this cult classic is certainly one of the strangest achievements of its era. John Cusack (in a role he later disowned) stars […]
Beverly Hills Cop Racism in all its ugly glory is most likely something that will never be completely erased in this world, but a certain segment of comedians and comedy filmmakers (both black and white) at least at one time were making a concerted, successful effort in disarming the use of racial epitaphs and stereotypes […]
Beverly Hills Cop 2 The original Beverly Hills Cop in 1984 was both another notch in Eddie Murphy’s nearly unblemished streak of hit comedies in the 1980s as well as being a raw, edgy, daring, groundbreaking action comedy in its own right, redefining the standards for an unconventional action hero who also happens to be […]