Alone In The Dark Way too often it is all too easy for a horror / slasher movie to only view its psychopathic villains from the outside looking in, using a superficial style of writing and wild eyed, cliché acting from the actor who happens to be playing this particular type of character. What’s even […]
Along Came Polly The only real thing that any romantic comedy needs really, despite mundane writing and jokes that don’t quite work, is CHEMISTRY between the two leads, and fortunately this 2004 effort provides that with Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston (the main indisputable reason in this world that Brad Pitt is a fucking idiot). […]
Altered States A recurring theme of certain horror movies (and possibly in real life) is that in the isolated environments of college campuses all across the country, the strangest, most mindblowing experiments imaginable are being conducted in order to find the next breakthrough in medical or metaphysical science with the horror element coming from something […]
Amazon Women On The Moon Sketch comedy films are something that is not only extremely rare, but also many times the exclusive domain of the low budget realm of filmmaking, a realm where such a scattershot style is pretty hit or miss (usually miss) which proves that sketch comedy in and of itself (defined as […]
American Beauty Much like Easy Rider signaled the true end to the tumultuous decade that was the 1960s, this 1999 Instant Classic can be hailed as the film that brought an end to the descent into potted plant conformity that was the 1990s, where the American people embraced a smooth-talking huckster named Bill Clinton as […]
American Gangster: Unrated Director’s Cut In bringing to the screen the story of Frank Lucas (whose real-life exploits obviously inspired many fictional crime movies over the years), the 1970s drug kingpin of New York who made hundreds of millions selling heroin imported straight from southeast Asia (in the midst of Vietnam), director Ridley Scott puts […]
American Gothic The so called “backwoods horror movie’ (as forever embodied by the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre and its various sequels and spinoffs) has been a staple of the genre for decades with numerous attempts to replicate the formula in several other films over the years, mostly without success and also without anything resembling good […]
American Graffiti Back when wunderkind George Lucas was trying to get Star Wars made, it was suggested to him to try to make something more “normal”, and with Francis Coppola’s help, he came up with this, a smash hit that made $115 million and earned Oscar noms for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and […]
American History X Race relations movies can be tricky sells, as more than likely they are made with a stoic, obvious political message, or worse, you have someone like Spike Lee who carries such a wrongheaded ideology with him that it winds up being racist itself as he glorifies and romanticizes painfully offensive acts of […]