Splash Romantic comedies today have basically devolved into badly written, cutesy, unfunny tripe with lame supporting casts and a general who gives a crap attitude among cast and crew, which makes this viewer hearken back to 1984 when one of the first major hits of the genre was released, complete with a smartly written (Oscar […]
Spy Who Loved Me By the time we get to the tenth installment of the James Bond franchise, certain elements were sadly starting to repeat themselves and it showed, despite the insistence of many fans that this is the best of the series. Lewis Gilbert was brought back here as director, and as such with […]
Stand By Me Very, very few films have captured with such accuracy the experience of what it’s like to be a 12 year old boy on the cusp of his teenage years, partly because boys at that age probably have the most intense, fevered sexual fantasies imaginable with the onset of puberty, and also perhaps […]
Star Trek In making this 2009 revival of the revered sci-fi franchise, director J.J. Abrams took a major risk, using new actors in the roles that were so emphatically identified with the original crew, and potentially pissing millions of fans off in the process. A lot of that is cleared up by the brilliant time […]
Star Trek 2: The Wrath Of Khan Certainly there have been cases where a sequel turned out to be an actual better film than its predecessor, whether it’s because of a bigger budget, or maybe because it expanded upon the original’s premise in a much more satisfying fashion, or maybe because it just did a […]
Star Trek 3: The Search For Spock Sometimes in a popular franchise, the very creative direction of the storyline itself can be dictated by the behnd the scenes drama going on with the productions themselves. Thus was the case with the Star Trek Series and the legendary Leonard Nimoy as Spock, playing out his death […]
Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home As fortune smiled upon the box office take for Star Trek 3, so was things now allowed to go in a new direction creatively. With Leonard Nimoy’s initial foray into directing on The Search For Spock considered to be a rousing success, this time around the producers basically gave […]
Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country After the unmitigated disaster that was Star Trek 5, with its slew of Razzie Awards, it’s half baked religious metaphors and allegories and worst of all, its goofy, stupid sense of humor showing the beloved original crew of The Starship Enterprise acting like idiot children and being completely out […]