Gran Torino After the abysmal overrated failures that were Million Dollar Baby and Mystic River, Clint Eastwood returned to form in 2008 with this piercing urban comedy drama that marks his last (or so he says) on-screen appearance and can certainly be chalked up as the best film he’s done in years. Playing Walt Kowalski, […]
Great Dictator There is no doubt that Charlie Chaplin was the first and arguably still the most beloved major movie star of all time. Spending the first decade of his career cranking out his silent short films with their impeccable comic timing before moving on to his features (most of which are usually considered as […]
Great Escape Surprising in its historical accuracy and groundbreaking as one of the first true action epics in 1963, director John Sturges tells the story of the Nazi’s foolhardy plan to house all of the Allied forces’ most profound escape artists in one facility with some real power and fervor. Right off the bat, the […]
Green Lantern: Extended Cut It’s little surprise that in the world of comic book heroes, DC Comics’ Superman and Batman are by far the two most popular, with the plethora of Marvel characters all being tied for third. This is NO accident, since the DC Heroes are known for being more relatable to the average […]
Green Zone There is little doubt that Saddam Hussein was well established as “America’s Boogyman” throughout the decade of the 90s, and that The Iraq War, supposedly over his storing of WMDs, was just as much of a jarring effort to help the psyche of our country breathe a sigh of relief. That said, there […]
Gremlins The 80s were a glorious time in more ways than one for American cinema, an era of original creative thinking and freedom along with the big budgets to support and accommodate such ideas. As the decade wore on and more original screenplays were being bought and produced to supplement the American ticket buyer’s imagination, […]
Gremlins 2: The New Batch Joe Dante’s original 1984 Gremlins was a classic 80s black comedy of the highest order, depicting a Norman Rockwell like classic small town being decimated both physically and metaphorically by hideous monsters who also happened to be fun loving anarchists to the hilt, with fantastic subtexts and metaphors about the […]
Groundhog Day After literally reinventing and then defining movie comedy as we know it in the 80s with his Immortal Classics Caddyshack and Vacation, the late, great Harold Ramis as a director then began kind of a slow decline, dropping the bar on the quality of his work for a series of obviously dumb comedies […]
Halloween (Original) Always known forever as the film that turned the tide for American horror movies, this 1978 release from master director John Carpenter made for an extremely low budget of $325,000 wound up being the highest grossest independent film of all time and moreso created and inspired the so-called “slasher” genre, where one filmmaker […]