Negotiator What was billed as the ultimate cinematic team-up between stars Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey is ultimately undone by ridiculous story elements, cheesy dialogue, and a sadly leaden pace. The filmās gimmick is that of two top police negotiators squaring off in a battle of wits, though ultimately it is more a battle […]
Network Itās very rare when a film (and its screenwriter) takes on the role of a virtual prophet, successfully predicting the future of mass media (and the world itself) in such a stunningly accurate way that one wonders if a time machine was made accessible to that writer so that he could write the story […]
New Jack City The gangster genre has always been among the most colorful of all movie types, violent, glorious displays about a criminalās rise to power and inevitable downfall. While obviously little can be done to change the basic formula of such films (outside of having the bad guy āwinā), what can make one rise […]
New York Ripper A reminder of how back in the day a sleazy dirty horror film was REALLY just that, Fulci’s NY-set slasher takes full advantage of its locations work, succeeding in making the city that never sleeps truly part of the narrative. Despite the American setting, I quickly grew weary of the massive amount […]
Night At The Museum 2: Battle Of The Smithsonian One of the secrets in making a successful sequel is to basically āup the anteā, to take the originalās premise and make it more epic with more characters and wilder situations, as was the case for this 2009 release that followed up the enormously popular original. […]
Night Of The Living Dead Truly one of the most breakthrough horror movies of all time, Romero’s low-budget opus that came to be considered a work of art still holds up today in terms of sheer creepiness, with the surreal first 20 minutes and nightmarish final 10 minutes among some of the best filmmaking you […]