A History Of Violence While not necessarily on the level of some of Cronenberg’s Grand Masterpieces of horror, this certainly ranks as a step up in maturity and storytelling for the auteur. Actually, with its brisk 95-minute running time, it really is one of the rare films that leave you wanting MORE. I wanted more […]
A Perfect World It’s pretty rare when two such profoundly A list Legends get together to collaborate and pool their collective skills on one major project, but that kind of dream scenario did indeed occur in 1993 when Kevin Costner and Clint Eastwood teamed up (with Eastwood also directing) to tackle this project which, when […]
A Scanner Darkly Phillip K. Dick’s parable about how drug use can be so serious you can actually start to lose your identity, has been turned into a fairly entertaining movie by Linklater. Using his slacker stoner origins from Dazed And Confused and applying it to the sci-fi genre, Linklater made the daring decision to […]
A-Team: Director’s Cut Growing up in the 80s and watching all the action and cop shows of the era was like having a chance to hang out with some old friends once a week, with witty repartee and believability that kept you coming back time and again, unlike today. This 2010 release, an updated version […]
Above The Law Steven Seagal came into Hollywood filmmaking with a backstory that would make most established movie stars envious. Said to be a world class aikido martial artist who had also worked as a Special Forces Operative for The CIA, Seagal had ultimately landed in Southern California working as a martial arts instructor for […]
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Absurdity can be one of the trickiest things to pull off in all of cinema, to have a premise that by itself is completely outlandish and renders much of the story itself to be downright laughable, yet shoulders on by playing its story as straight as an arrow and letting the […]
Absolute Power In the wake of trying to exploit the image people had of Presidents Kennedy and Clinton as shameless philanderers came this 1997 movie from Clint Eastwood which combines a political conspiracy thriller with an old-style true crime story that has more pulp than a truckful of rotten oranges, leading to a final product […]
Abyss: Director’s Cut It’s amazing how one can almost always forgive James Cameron for his ego and sometimes extreme views by the quality of the original sci-fi films he has done that display his prodigious genius. Here in 1989 he made this underwater epic about a deep-core drilling team recruited to assist some Navy SEALS […]
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Wouldn’t we all like to see that when the time comes to when we finally get to star in a movie in the lead comedy role, that role is one that seems perfectly tailor made for your particular brand of borderline (if not outright) insanity, up to and including being given […]