Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein If there’s two things that kept Universal Studios rolling in dough throughout the 1930s and 40s, it was 1) their classic stable of Universal monsters which made for a bevy of interlocking sequels and franchises which was not all that different from today’s Marvel Universe complete with its roster of […]
About Schmidt Finding cinematic inspiration in the mundane, dreary and ordinary things in life can be one of the toughest things to accomplish by any filmmaker but that doesn’t seem to stop Alexander Payne from garnering acclaim with his amazingly funny yet somber efforts which often take skewed points of view about the nature of […]
Above The Law Steven Seagal came into Hollywood filmmaking with a backstory that would make most established movie stars envious. Said to be a world class aikido martial artist who had also worked as a Special Forces Operative for The CIA, Seagal had ultimately landed in Southern California working as a martial arts instructor for […]
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Absurdity can be one of the trickiest things to pull off in all of cinema, to have a premise that by itself is completely outlandish and renders much of the story itself to be downright laughable, yet shoulders on by playing its story as straight as an arrow and letting the […]
Absolute Power In the wake of trying to exploit the image people had of Presidents Kennedy and Clinton as shameless philanderers came this 1997 movie from Clint Eastwood which combines a political conspiracy thriller with an old-style true crime story that has more pulp than a truckful of rotten oranges, leading to a final product […]
Abyss: Director’s Cut It’s amazing how one can almost always forgive James Cameron for his ego and sometimes extreme views by the quality of the original sci-fi films he has done that display his prodigious genius. Here in 1989 he made this underwater epic about a deep-core drilling team recruited to assist some Navy SEALS […]
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Wouldn’t we all like to see that when the time comes to when we finally get to star in a movie in the lead comedy role, that role is one that seems perfectly tailor made for your particular brand of borderline (if not outright) insanity, up to and including being given […]
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls Many times, a good sequel is the result of being a mere extension of the original concept and / or main character as in this case the title role, an insanely over the top animal lover who not only worked as a detective specializing in cases involving animals, but whom […]
Addams Family One can only speculate as to what constituted the full on “family friendly” appeal of The Addams Family Franchise, in essence a ghoulish, offbeat clan first created in a comic strip by its namesake author Charles Addams whose very lifeblood in existing was by living in a gothic, contrarian vein where things that […]
