Catch Me If You Can The evolution of Leonardo DiCaprio’s acting talent can be looked at in a upward curve starting with 1997’s megahit Titanic, a movie with terrible writing, terrible acting and a lead performance by DiCaprio that redefined the terms smug, smarmy, shallow and unlikable, but the movie just so happened to be […]
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory This “faithful adaptation” of Roald Dahl’s classic novel, and de facto remake of the 1971 Gene Wilder childen’s favorite (and cult classic for LSD lovers everywhere), brings the unique visionary skills of Tim Burton to life yet again. As the opening titles began, I mused on how the music scores […]
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 […]
Cherry Falls As Scream reinvented the slasher movie genre in the late 1990s with an entirely new formula that included pretty young actors both male and female, a goofy irrelevant sense of humor amongst the characters and lots and lots of irony, almost immediately a lower rung of filmmakers rushed to emulate what Wes Craven […]
Child’s Play Certainly a film that electrified horror fans upon its initial release in 1988, Tom Holland’s original killer doll opus is really the tale of two (good) movies: the first being a creepy, atmospheric tale of a boy and his doll where at times you’re just not sure if the boy is telling the […]
Child’s Play 2 One thing should be made clear: The original 1988 Child’s Play was one of the great atmospheric horror films of the decade, building suspense slowly before making its franchise villain truly part of the mix. Not so the case with its sequel, made two years later. The filmmakers had already decided that […]
Child’s Play 3 Rushed into production and onto theater screens a mere 9 months(!) after the previous entry, this is clearly the biggest failure of the series, failing to even make Chucky entertaining with foul-mouthed wisecracks that come off as tired rather than clever, as even Brad Dourif doing the voice seems off his game. […]
Chinatown As a movie that’s been praised to the moon and routinely shows up on many All-Time best lists, Roman Polanski’s 1974 potboiler (the last film he made before fleeing the U.S. on rape charges) has its good points and bad points, with the former just barely outweighing the latter. The film’s lush, beautiful cinematography […]
Chocolat No doubt one of the most dangerous things in this world, and the cause of so many of its problems, is the celebration of repression, the idea of withholding and denying oneself even the simplest of pleasures for the sake of some presumed spiritual fulfillment as advocated by those such as the Catholic Church. […]