Little Miss Sunshine You don’t need to remind me that the world of child beauty pageants is little more than a salacious, repugnant industry: an eternal hot spot for various types of pedophiles where they can see sweet little darlings dolled up like street walkers and pushed on stage by their equally disgusting parents to […]
Little Shop Of Horrors (Director’s Cut) Movie musicals are a dying breed nowadays, and many would say rightly so, simply because what you have usually is a simple, nondescript story enhanced only by making the audience believe that they are viewing the events through the prism of an alternate universe where at any given time […]
Live And Let Die Many times when making sequels to a popular franchise, it is necessary to reinvent and bring new elements to the table in order to keep said franchise feeling fresh and of high quality. Thus is the case with the 8th film in the Bond Series, which retains Guy Hamilton as director […]
Living Daylights One has to feel bad for Timothy Dalton: Chosen to (thankfully) replace Roger Moore as James Bond 007, and he winds up getting saddled with perhaps the worst film in the whole series, featuring a bad script, lousy and underdeveloped villains, and a decidedly below average Bond girl by series standards. Dalton certainly […]
Lock Up Prison movies generally fall into one of two categories, one of which is the serious, gritty type of dramas that (if wishing to be good) contains at least a minimum of violence with maybe just a dash of social commentary. Films of this type include Midnight Express, Papillion, and the underrated Tom Selleck […]
Lone Wolf McQuade Martial arts themed action films more often than not fall into the pit of well deserved obscurity because while it’s easy to find your prototypical hero actor of the genre to play the hero of said film, more often than not casting directors are left scrambling when it comes to the process […]
Long Riders With all the attention and adoration swirling around the recent Brad Pitt take on the Jesse James legend, it’s interesting to look back on this 1980 version of the tale, historically featuring four real-life sets of acting brothers for perhaps the first (and only) time. Unfortunately, it may also stand as arguably the […]
Lord Of Illusions When popular horror writers decide to take the chance of becoming a director in order to adapt their own material into a movie, there’s no real telling just how exactly it’s going to turn out. Stephen King himself would take the plunge only one time and the result was Maximum Overdrive which […]
Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring Fantasy has always been an iffy genre in the cinema realm, with it being something that’s not quite sci fi and not quite action, but is rather the idea of an entirely imaginary world being created where anything is possible in the context of the story […]