El Topo The phenomenon of the midnight cult movie is one that sadly gets very little remembrance or modern day acknowledgement in this day and age, with the exception of the goofily entertaining Rocky Horror Picture Show, a sci fi spoof / rock musical that nonetheless carries a prevalent theme of being open and honest […]
Election The lost art of the cinematic allegory combined with the razor sharp edge of biting satire is something we sadly don’t see enough of anymore, mostly because Hollywood now chooses to “play it safe” so as not to offend others of their own political orientation while convincing those whom they consider to be mindless […]
Embrace Of The Vampire There are certainly very few (if any) 80s TV actresses who inspired more hormonal driven teenage boy fantasies than Alyssa Milano as the daughter of Tony Danza’s bumbling oaf of a male househeeper on Who’s The Boss? While nearly nobody cared about the reputedly gay in real life Danza’s on and […]
Enchanted This story about an animated fairy tale princess who comes to live in the “real” world of New York City borrows heavily from Snow White, with bits and pieces of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Little Mermaid (with Ariel herself, Jodi Benson, getting an hilarious cameo as the secretary of a law firm). The glue […]
End Game Sometimes in filmmaking, it becomes obvious that certain scripts are just NOT cut out for the low-budget independent circuit, and this is a perfect example, because while having a sound premise and workable final twist, is seriously hampered by the cheap quality right from the very first frame along with a story that […]
Enforcer Whereas 1971’s Dirty Harry raised serious questions about the extent of the lengths that those in law enforcement would have to take in order to protect society from certain select criminals that were highly dangerous and 1973’s sequel (Magnum Force) commendably addressed at least some of those issues head on, when it came time […]
Enter The Dragon The martial arts movie genre is generally one that is actually NOT misunderstood, as it exists almost solely to showcase various fighting styles and (with the overrated exception of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) suffers from no illusions of grandeur that their films would ever be considered either good nor prestigious enough to […]
Eragon Perhaps the biggest disadvantage that this movie has, is that in an era where we’ve seen definitive cinematic presentations of Lord Of The Rings, The Narnia Chronicles, Harry Potter, and even Star Wars, this fantasy adaptation feels a bit too much like been there, done that. Regardless, taking into account that there is NO […]
Escape From New York From the confident, original, opening chords of its legendary theme music, to the nihilistic yet strangely uplifting ending, John Carpenter came up with his Ultimate Grand Masterpiece in 1981 that still stands today as a high water mark in cult / action filmmaking. With the premise straight out of a pulp […]