Midnight Cowboy Forever remembered as the first (and only) X-rated movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, this classic from 1969 by director John Schlesinger is relatively tame by today’s standards, but for audiences back then who had never seen nude sex scenes and the like, it was pretty much a revelation, plus […]
Midnight Express When is it that the issue of staunch political correctness clashes with that of very real legitimate human rights issues? When a race of people that are known for the torture and abuse of their prisoners suddenly find privileged types coming to their aid over what is being perceived as their negative stereotyping […]
Mindwarp For years, Fangoria Magazine had touted the virtues of horror movies great and small with a tendency in their coverage to lean towards the aspects of those films involving gory violence and elaborate makeup FX work (not that horror movies depended solely on those type of things obviously but they must have felt that […]
Miracle Besides obviously being the greatest upset in the history of organized sports, The 1980 U.S Olympic Hockey Team’s triumph over The Soviet Union in Glens Falls, NY was made out by many to be some kind of major cultural milestone, a shifting of the tide that many feel boosted both American patriotic pride and […]
Mobsters Clearly a project that was hoping to combine elements of Goodfellas and Young Guns to create its own potent box office concoction, this film instead in the hands of an incompetent TV commercial director (who the fuck was Michael Karbelbnikoff??) and hampered by an absolute mess of a screenplay winds up crashing and burning […]
Modern Times Charlie Chaplin is no doubt the first great artist of the filmmaking medium (with only D.W. Griffith hovering near that level and time period) but sadly a number of his nonconformist tendencies that he incorporated into his beloved character of The Little Tramp led many to believe that he was a dyed in […]
Monkey Business With the release of this particular film in 1931 (their third), it appears that The Marx Brothers had finally hit their stride when it came to their movie career, mostly due to a number of factors that were finally applicable here, up to and including 1) This film was conceived directly for the […]
Monster Squad Sometime around 1987, director Fred Dekker came up with the idea of copying The Goonies and its basic concept into an old-school Universal monster movie as opposed to an Indy Jones-type romp (and even brought in actress Mary Ellen Trainor, who had played the mom for the leaders of the Goonies, to play […]