Captain America ‘90 Richard Donner’s Superman movies and Tim Burton’s Batman (despite being almost 10 years apart) helped usher in what is now the modern age of glossy, non stop, big budget comic book action movies. The irony remains that these early, big budget in their own right productions were both from well known characters […]
Captain America: The First Avenger Now we have entered the winter of discontent in the modern era of comic book superhero films, as evidenced by this 2011 release that served as little more than a teaser for the big Avengers movie that followed it. Worse, it carries with it the one thing that NO “summer […]
Captivity I’ll admit it: I’m a big fan of Elisha Cuthbert from her work as Kim Bauer on the show 24. And here, in her second major starring role (after Girl Next Door), she manages to hold things together with her amazing feminine charisma. The film flaunts its plot holes right off the bat: We’re […]
Casino Is there any doubt that Martin Scorsese is the all time undisputed master of the gangster film? One of the reasons for that is his uncanny ability to make each film seem different and with a fresh perspective on the mob lifestyle, starting with the rough low budget proceedings of Mean Streets all the […]
Casino Royale The Bond films up through Pierce Brosnan had conformed into a lockstep mentality that had made them almost intolerable, with the same ol evil plots, cookie cutter villains and Bond Girls, and the nearly OCD tendency of the scripts to stick in the characters of Q and Moneypenny even if there was almost […]
Casino Royale ’67 Sometimes in the midst of what can best be called a VERY troubled production, something truly amazing can happen. The producers can wind up switching gears in midstream, rewrite the entire movie to have an entirely different kind of plot while still retaining all footage already shot, and manage through sheer lack […]
Cast Away I understand that one can accept product placement as a necessary evil in Hollywood movies, but when one movie becomes so obviously obsessed with promoting one particular brand name or product at the artistic expense of the story itself, then something has to be said, as with this 2000 movie that is so […]
Cat People ‘82 As fun as erotic thrillers were in the 1990s with their quasi porn tendencies, the darkness of their tone would be eclipsed eventually by what would be known as erotic horror movies, most of which would be so depraved that only a specialized audience would be willing to seek out and watch […]
