The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers After the nearly overwhelming cinematic goodness that was Fellowship Of the Ring, in 2002 it was time for the story to continue with franchise director Peter Jackson (who seemed to sacrifice his entire career while making constant adaptations of J.R.R Tolkienâs work to diminishing audience interest and […]
Lost Boys There are some directors who actually work best on what can be strictly called a for hire basis. In terms of visuals, camerawork, and style, their work can be downright masterful, although thereâs less expertise when it comes to the areas of story, dialogue, and characters, usually because of them working from someone […]
Lost Boys 2: The Tribe First off, thereâs no way that this follow-up 20+ years later could EVER be as good as Joel Schumacherâs seminal 80s classic about hard-partying teen vampires, but this 2008 effort makes a decent try in some aspects, most notably in some of the acting and cinematography, but still falls flat […]
Lost Highway The first and certainly the best of David Lynch’s “dual-personality” trilogy that also included Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire, while it certainly features his convoluted style, is still more enjoyable and accessible than the other two entries to be perhaps his most underrated work. Lynch meticulously takes his time in the early going, […]
Lost In Translation You know, Tokyo seems like such a beautiful city, peaceful and tranquil at times (as in the opening scene), yet so much more technologically advanced and civilized than much of the rest of the world, that one day, with lots of money and the right girl, I wouldnât mind paying it a […]
Lovely Bones Sometimes books that were truly effective reads really donât translate very well to the screen, and that seems to be the case with this 2009 adaptation of the story about a murdered 14 year old girl who narrates the story and watches over her family from Heaven, and comes off as being slow-paced, […]
MASH The unusual phenomenom of trying to ârecreateâ popular movies into the realm of weekly TV shows was one that was almost always destined for failure, which is perfectly understandable when one watches a TV series where beloved movie characters are now being played by lesser TV actors (or minor characters played by the same […]
MacGruber Action comedies, no matter how elaborate, are usually a pretty risky proposition, not only because the fans of such films devotedly love the known stable of genre stars (Arnie, Sly, etc..) but also because the clichĂ©s of the whole storytelling style (especially villain mistakes) are almost equally beloved in their own right. It probably […]
