Full Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam opus was severely overshadowed in its time of release by Oliver Stone’s Platoon the year before, but there can be no doubt that this is the superior film in every way and deserved multiple 1987 Oscars. It’s also my opinion that despite the brilliant fast-paced opening 45 minutes in […]
Funhouse Tobe Hooper remains to this day one of the most truly underrated of horror filmmakers which in some ways is understandable given his first initial effort. 1974’s original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre left an indelible mark on all of cinema for all time, an achievement in horror that no other filmmaker in 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 […]
G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra In making this live action adaptation of the 80s cartoon and action figure line, one must remember this: the ORIGINAL CONCEPT was a super cheesy pseudo-military claptrap with heroic elite soldiers battling an evil organization who wanted to take over the world, nothing more than that. So, director Stephen […]
Galaxy Quest There may no more sadder or more pathetic type of people in this world than sci-fi / fantasy convention goers, a motley lot that attends these events dressed up in intricate detail as their favorite characters and worse, spend seemingly inordinate amounts of disposable income to meet and get autographs with the mostly […]
George A. Romero’s Land Of The Dead One would think that the Godfather of the Zombie Subgenre himself would have been able to look around and see the hordes of little-to-no-talent amateur filmmakers who have devoted countless hours to ripping off his work and seen that it was probably better to let the subgenre die […]
Get Shorty Hollywood movies about Hollywood life (especially comedies) can be amongst the trickiest for any filmmaker to adequately pull off, in many ways because the subject matter can come across as being bizarrely unrealistic for those involved in the industry who were not involved directly in the movie itself and thus can see the […]
Ghost Rider Sometimes in the neverending cycle of comic book movies, some of the best and most interesting ones were those that covered the second tier or “B” level heroes of the genre (The Punisher, The Crow, Judge Dredd) while the so called “mainstream” heroes with their movies can get increasingly boring and repetitive, possibly […]
Ghostbusters Pop culture phenomenons happen all the time nowadays in our spoonfed entertainment media, but to have something still retain its “coolness” factor almost 30 years later is a rare thing indeed. But, that is what has happened with this release from 1984, a convergence of some of the best and most brilliant minds in […]