Airplane! Nearly 30 years after this film’s release, it’s amazing how so few comedies in the years since (if any) have been able to match this film in the laughs per minute ratio. Maybe it’s because the filmmakers (as well as the actors) present the story in such a straight-laced way, so that the funny […]
Alice In Wonderland Lewis Carroll may possibly have been a pervert, but he was also a genius with mathematics and as a storyteller had an imagination that was unparalleled by anyone up to that time, as seen by the enduring popularity of his Alice stories. This 2010 adaptation by Tim Burton is not so much […]
Alien: Director’s Cut Without a doubt the last word when it comes to science fiction / horror movies, Ridley Scott’s influential masterpiece does nonetheless still suffer from some pacing and writing issues in the first half. It would seem that screenwriter Dan O’Bannon wants to establish the mundane quality of space travel (which he also […]
Alien 3: Director’s Cut The first major work of the now legendary David Fincher is a relentlessly depressing exercise in a bleak and nilhilistic journey. Many fans (including myself) were pissed at the casual way the awesome characters of Hicks and Newt were killed off here, and Bishop basically reduced to the scrap heap, but […]
Alien: Resurrection: Director’s Cut If there’s one thing I find kinda annoying, it’s when fanboys of a certain movie franchise go up in arms about sequels taking things in a different direction and trying something new: Thus the case here with the most underrated film of the Alien series. Director Jeunet decided to infuse his […]
Aliens: Director’s Cut Basically the film that rewrote the rules of sci-fi action and established a bar in pacing and violence that has rarely been topped, James Cameron’s sequel to Ridley Scott’s seminal classic is the rare example of the follow-up that actually manages to top the original all the way around. Sigourney Weaver returns […]
Alone In The Dark Way too often it is all too easy for a horror / slasher movie to only view its psychopathic villains from the outside looking in, using a superficial style of writing and wild eyed, cliché acting from the actor who happens to be playing this particular type of character. What’s even […]
Along Came Polly The only real thing that any romantic comedy needs really, despite mundane writing and jokes that don’t quite work, is CHEMISTRY between the two leads, and fortunately this 2004 effort provides that with Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston (the main indisputable reason in this world that Brad Pitt is a fucking idiot). […]
Altered States A recurring theme of certain horror movies (and possibly in real life) is that in the isolated environments of college campuses all across the country, the strangest, most mindblowing experiments imaginable are being conducted in order to find the next breakthrough in medical or metaphysical science with the horror element coming from something […]
