Frost/Nixon In bringing to life arguably the most famous political interview of all time, Ron Howard succeeds in making one of his best (and certainly to be underrated as the years go on) films ever. Howard does a fine job of depicting how in the mid 70s as the administrations of Ford and then Carter […]
Full Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam opus was severely overshadowed in its time of release by Oliver Stone’s Platoon the year before, but there can be no doubt that this is the superior film in every way and deserved multiple 1987 Oscars. It’s also my opinion that despite the brilliant fast-paced opening 45 minutes in […]
Funhouse Tobe Hooper remains to this day one of the most truly underrated of horror filmmakers which in some ways is understandable given his first initial effort. 1974ās original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre left an indelible mark on all of cinema for all time, an achievement in horror that no other filmmaker in the […]
G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra In making this live action adaptation of the 80s cartoon and action figure line, one must remember this: the ORIGINAL CONCEPT was a super cheesy pseudo-military claptrap with heroic elite soldiers battling an evil organization who wanted to take over the world, nothing more than that. So, director Stephen […]
Galaxy Of Terror The low budget realms of cinema used to always be good for ripping off the major box office blockbusters so after the success of Ridley Scottās Alien came this 1981 attempt to duplicate it on a $700,000 budget and a cast that for the most part (it could be argued) were actually […]
Galaxy Quest There may no more sadder or more pathetic type of people in this world than sci-fi / fantasy convention goers, a motley lot that attends these events dressed up in intricate detail as their favorite characters and worse, spend seemingly inordinate amounts of disposable income to meet and get autographs with the mostly […]
George A. Romeroās Land Of The Dead One would think that the Godfather of the Zombie Subgenre himself would have been able to look around and see the hordes of little-to-no-talent amateur filmmakers who have devoted countless hours to ripping off his work and seen that it was probably better to let the subgenre die […]
Get Shorty Hollywood movies about Hollywood life (especially comedies) can be amongst the trickiest for any filmmaker to adequately pull off, in many ways because the subject matter can come across as being bizarrely unrealistic for those involved in the industry who were not involved directly in the movie itself and thus can see the […]
Ghost Rider Sometimes in the neverending cycle of comic book movies, some of the best and most interesting ones were those that covered the second tier or āBā level heroes of the genre (The Punisher, The Crow, Judge Dredd) while the so called āmainstreamā heroes with their movies can get increasingly boring and repetitive, possibly […]