The Hunger From Bram Stoker to Anne Rice to Stephenie Meyer, various writers have written various books about the mythos of being a vampire, an immortal being which feeds on human blood to survive. Most of these writers seem to feel that to be such a creature can almost be a fantastic adventure, never growing […]
Hurricane Sometimes it can be hard to review a movie such as this 1999 release, a film that is acted and made well enough in the service of a basically dishonest, one-sided screenplay that has since been proven to be rife with factual inaccuracies about the real life story at hand. Denzel Washington stars as […]
Hurt Locker I remember when the art of the War Movie was to make an oblique masterpiece where War itself was really a metaphor for the human condition, which resulted in such works as Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket. Then, starting with Ridley Scottās Black Hawk Down, the idea was to take the genre […]
The Hustler Considered by many to be the film that popularized the game of pool nationwide following its release, Robert Rossenās 1961 classic is actually a fairly, downbeat, depressing story about a born loser with all the talent in the world at the game yet usually comes undone by his own personal flaws. Significant is […]
Iām Gonna Git You Sucka Probably the most fun side effect to come from the success of the civil rights movement was the emergence of Black Action Cinema, otherwise known as blaxspoitation. With Hollywood finally embracing the notion that genre movies with mostly black casts (and with them always playing the heroes) can be profitable, […]
In Bruges In many ways seeming like an offshoot of a Guy Ritchie film only it actually contains a heart and soul, this 2008 release from first time director Martin McDonagh is certainly original in many ways, not the least being its setting: Bruges, Belgium, showcased heavily throughout even though one of the main characters […]
In The Mouth Of Madness John Carpenter had an unprecedented, unblemished run as a director in the 1970s and 80s, coming up with one classic after another. In the 90s, he started to falter quite a bit, starting in 1991 with Memoirs Of An Invisible Man, an unfunny Chevy Chase vehicle which tried to reinvent […]
Inception Itās easy to say that our current reality is so awful on the surface that maybe the world of our dreams is the more preferable climate, while others might argue that to be self-aware and firmly grounded in the real world is the place to be. Thus is the argument raised by Christopher Nolanās […]
Incredible Hulk Well, after Ang Leeās disastrous attempt to make a comic book movie 5 years prior, we get this vastly improved ārebootā of the character thatās better in almost every way: The CGI technology used to bring the Hulk to life looks more lifelike and realistic, not like the giant green computer graphic we […]