Weird Science John Hughes established himself so quickly and strongly in the “teen comedy” genre in the early 80s with Sixteen Candles and Breakfast Club (an undisputed classic anyway you cut it) that when the time came in 1985 to make his next film, the studio basically handed him a blank check and told him […]
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare Wes Craven spent much of the 90s making what can best be called self reflective, ironic type horror films, ones that told their own story while still commenting on the current state of the horror industry itself. The Scream Trilogy is probably the most popular and famous of these works, but […]
What Lies Beneath There really is nothing like a GOOD suspense thriller, which takes the time to build mood and atmosphere, and knowing just the right time to get things really going. Sadly, that is not the case with this 2000 film from legendary Oscar-winning director Robert Zemeckis and starring two of the greatest movie […]
Where The Buffalo Roam The cinematic renderings (and portrayals) of one Dr. Hunter S. Thompson have ultimately turned out to be a mixed bag, perhaps because Thompson himself was such a crazed yet enigmatic figure. The original, one, true “Gonzo Journalist” (even as several others have since professed to have taken after him but never […]
White Heat In the 1930s, James Cagney was the undisputed king of the old school gangster movie. Often co starring in these films with Humphrey Bogart (whom he would regularly make his bitch), Cagney seemed to revel in playing amoral, ruthless criminal scumbags and audiences would line up in droves in order to see him […]
Who Framed Roger Rabbit The Golden Age Of Cartoons had a certain style and mindset that was the same across the board no matter what studio produced the given piece of work, that of an animated world where political correctness was unknown, wanton violence and destruction was always used as a source of humor, and […]
Whole Nine Yards In some ways, this could be looked at as a retread of Ruthless People, but with fewer laughs. However, it does more than make up for that in charm with a game cast and good direction from veteran journeyman Jonathan Lynn. Like Ruthless, the story features mostly detestable characters each with their […]
Wild Orchid People often forget that before he became the lovably eccentric cult actor with a Best Actor Oscar Nomination for his peerlessly brilliant performance in The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke in the 1980s was arguably the top male movie star sex symbol in the world (although not necessarily in The USA), so beloved was he […]