Itās A Mad Mad Mad Mad World Film Comedy has had quite a history when it comes to the epic, all-star ensemble projects in which a large cast of characters who (more often than not) engage in some sort of competition in order to achieve a desired goal, ranging in everything from The Cannonball Run […]
Jackass: The Movie With its formula of having its crew perpetuate self-abuse in the name of comedy plus playing malicious pranks on unsuspecting marks (which clearly inspired Borat), this 2002 release (based on the cult MTV reality show) cannot clearly be classified as a movie to be reviewed, but rather a series of ever-increasing comedy […]
Jackie Brown After capturing the attention of critics and audiences with 1992ās Reservoir Dogs and then (according to some people) completely changing the face of the film industry with 1994ās Pulp Fiction, there was little doubt that Quentin Tarantinoās eagerly awaited next film in 1997 had a hell of a lot to live up to, […]
Jailhouse Rock Considered one of, if not the best movie made by Elvis Presley in his rather undistinguished acting career (of which he made about 30 films), this 1957 musical also eerily paralleled The Kingās own meteoric rise to the top as one of the most famous celebrities to ever live. Elvis plays a happy […]
Jarhead Has every great war movie that was ever possible already been made?? Certainly Apocalypse Now in 1979 set the bar so high that itās obviously clear it will never be topped, and pretty much every war movie made in the last 10 to 15 years has mostly been crap (Hurt Locker notwithstanding), full of […]
Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday When Paramount Pictures (who had often considered the Friday The 13th Series to be a laughable, yet highly profitable low rent, low budget film franchise for them) sold off the rights for the Jason Voorhees character (but not the actual Friday The 13th name) to New Line Cinema, […]
Jason X Prior to his big showdown with Freddy Krueger, The Jason Series just had to hit its nadir first. Having teased the big showdown with Krueger in the also awful Jason Goes To Hell, it would take another 10 years before a workable script was finally prepared to be filmed, but in the meantime, […]
Jaws The cinematic oeuvre of Steven Spielberg is one to behold. Undoubtedly the most financially successful filmmaker of all time (by far), a closer look at many of his biggest films reveals major flaws in his storytelling and style, from a super sappy artificial sentimentality that overwhelms much of the true meanings of the films […]
Jekyll And Hyde Together Again After the phrase āpolitical correctnessā along with its meaning and definition was coined in the mid 90s at the height of The Clinton Regime, people tended to forget pretty quickly that in the realms of 1970s and 80s pop culture including movies, music and television, there were plenty of instances […]
Jerry Maguire Weāve all seen varying degrees of the Tom Cruise Movie Genre (Golden Boy faces adversity, overcomes odds, gets the girl, and wins the day), but this 1996 effort from Cameron Crowe could certainly be considered one of the best written of its kind. As a slick, fast-talking sports agent who gets a crisis […]