The Chase The American South has always suffered from a duality issue in terms of its overall image as known in America (and the world). On one hand, they are said (mostly by Southerners themselves) to be a simple, God fearing people, adhering to Christian values and a belief in the goodness of themselves. On […]
Crow The instances where the star of a movie or TV show being killed on set are rare but notable (Vic Morrow, Jon-Erik Hexum, and Roy Kinnear come to mind), but the most notorious (and thus, legendary) event is no doubt the accidental death of Brandon Lee in 1993 (nearly twenty years ago) on the […]
The Driver Action movies are almost always noted for their excessive nature, that eternal tendency to throw everything and the kitchen sink into the equation. Certainly Walter Hill, a director who is renowned for a number of action classics, is every bit as guilty for overloading his films with over the top sequences as anybody, […]
The Fly (Remake) Horror movies were going through a weird state of required ultra cheesiness during the decade of the 1950s, as every film of that genre was really intended to be a “monster movie” of some sort, usually of the truly non scary variety, where the main selling point would be based around the […]
The Fog A film that could be considered one of the few missteps in the legendary and storied career of John Carpenter, it’s nonetheless worth a watch for those who had their brains fried by the needless remake of recent years. This viewer knew he was in trouble early here, with John Houseman’s showy cameo […]
Fortune In the mid 1970s, no two actors were more popular or better known than Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty. Nicholson was one of the most entertaining performers to ever step in front of a camera and was prolific on top of that with three Oscar wins and a cornucopia of undisputed classics on his […]
Fountain There are all kinds of movies out there of course, from big mindless popcorn flicks to cheesy little teen horror romps, but perhaps the toughest kind of work to pull off is that of the abstract, esoteric piece from which several different interpretations can be gleaned from different viewers. David Lynch is undoubtedly the […]
The Fury With 1976’s Carrie, many people felt that Brian De Palma had created a horror classic that would be the last word in the field of psychic and telekinetic ablity. But (aside from Sissy Spacek’s remarkable acting), a closer look reveals something else, a film that for ¾ of its running time played off […]