Warlock 2: The Armageddon The concept for The Warlock Franchise should have been a can’t miss: An evil being who has been alive and around for Time Immortal (and might just literally be The Son Of Satan) using every opportunity that another installment in the series would give him to carry out one plan after […]
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Warriors
Warriors Sometimes you get a filmmaker who pulls off a real miracle by coming up with a movie where it turns out that neither the story, script, performances, or any one actor are particularly significant, but somehow through the use of style, pacing, cinematography, and other miscellaneous factors, manages to pull off a masterpiece with […]
Watchmen
Watchmen: Ultimate Cut As sprawling in its epic scope as any comic book movie even beyond The Dark Knight, director Zack Snyder’s adaptation of the once-thought unfilmable graphic novel by Alan Moore brings all the elements action-wise one could hope for yet so much more: A political subtext through this alternate universe of costumed crimefighters […]
Waterboy
Waterboy This football comedy starring Adam Sandler in many ways is hard to score. Having actively played the game myself for a number of years, my criticisms of football movies is usually harsher than it is for most sports movies, yet this film has an undeniable goofy earnestness that manages to win the viewer over. […]
Waterworld
Waterworld: Director’s Cut As pure an example of a failed epic as there’s ever been made, this 1995 monstrosity (which carried a then-record budget of $175 million) tries hard to be different with its setting and apocalyptic take, as apparently Al Gore’s worst nightmare has come true and the polar icecaps have melted, leaving the […]
Waxwork
Waxwork Straight up genre homage films are usually considered to be a risky gamble, going to great lengths to recreate a scene (or scenes) from other, better known movies to weave into the fabric of their own storyline, and if not done just the right way, usually inspiring jeers of derision from its more knowledgeable […]
Waxwork 2: Lost In Time
Wayne’s World
Wayne’s World If there’s any comedy star in recent cinema history who is more misunderstood than most, it would have to be Mike Myers, whom (according to most accounts) is said to take his particular style of comedy very seriously to that of almost a perfectionist level, a far cry from the usually breezy, lighthearted […]
Wayne’s World 2
Wayne’s World 2 Looking back, it’s easy to see the basic appeal of the Wayne’s World movies in that they were comedies about two (obviously) adult males who had simply refused to grow up (and not in the Michael Jackson / Peter Pan kind of way). They and their friends would spend their lives tooling […]