Category: Reviews

Judge Dredd Comic book movies are not as simple to make as one may think, and they certainly involve much more than just adapting a particular book frame by frame into screenplay form (as Alex Tse reportedly did with his Watchmen script before it was subjected to severe rewrites). One of the reasons for this […]

Judgment Night First off, any film that takes a strong influence from Walter Hill’s Warriors definitely has a good thing going on. With the aid of the outstanding cinematography and production design, Stephen Hopkins succeeds in making a “wrong turn” off the freeway become an entrance into an inner-city hell, almost like it’s a world […]

Juno The first thing that came to my mind watching this is that Diablo Cody had to be a LOCK for winning Best Original Screenplay. The sharply written dialogue is the star of this film, and nearly every phrase that comes out of Ellen Page’s mouth is a joy to hear. While many would argue […]

Just Before Dawn While a lot people define the “original backwoods horror movie” as being Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the truth is that the original prototype for the whole subgenre was really John Boorman’s Deliverance, a film often wrongly labeled as an “action revenge drama” but in reality is just a pure piece of […]

K-19: The Widowmaker It’s quite a wonder to look back at the pathetic nature of the Soviet Union during the “Cold War” and the lame, desperate way they tried to keep up with America in both the space race and the arms race, with incompetent engineering that resulted in many deaths and the lack of […]

Kentucky Fried Movie No doubt the most hit or miss form of humor on the planet is that of sketch comedy, that of presenting a small story with characters in the form of a short segment that is portrayed along with a number of other similar sketches during the course of a TV program. The […]

Kick-Ass Somewhere in the mixture of comic book films, there has been a mini-trend of doing such films in a style that belied what would happen if superheroes existed in our own harsh, real world? Certainly The Dark Knight accomplished that incredibly well, and with an established character to boot, and also there’s M. Night […]

Kick Ass 2 Sometimes a sequel can come out that can stop a potentially great franchise stone cold dead, not necessarily because it’s a BAD movie per se, but more because it’s failure resulted from not remembering the essential spirit that had made the original movie so great. That appears to be what happened here […]

Kill Bill Volume 1 When it (finally) came time for Quentin Tarantino to make only the fourth film of his storied and already legendary career, with him obviously in the driver’s seat to make whatever kind of film that he wanted, the still young neophyte chose to take on the Asian market with a homage […]

Kill Bill Volume 2 When Quentin Tarantino came out with Volume 1 in this particular saga, many thought that he had abandoned the high level of maturity in his writing for something possibly far more entertaining: A high octane anime cartoon come to life, overflowing with blood, guts, and the body parts of various bad […]