Tangled If there’s one thing that Disney has gotten right over all these years when it comes to their animated movies, it’s their depiction of female characters. From Snow White to Cinderella to Ariel to Belle to Jessica Rabbit, the Disney animators have crafted some absolutely BEAUTIFUL “dream women” and brought them to life in […]
Taps Sometimes, you might come upon a movie with a completely outlandish and wholly unrealistic premise because the process of telling the actual story itself results in opening an entire Pandora’s Box of morality questions and societal probabilties related either directly or indirectly to that very story. While rare, this type of movie does come […]
Targets “End Of An Era” type flicks (depending on the genre) usually are exercises in poignancy, melancholy, or some other kind of overly emotional hodgepodge. Horror movies (on the other hand) have never seemed to go out of style, remaining by far the most popular films of their kind deep into the home video / […]
Taxi Driver The power of movies on potentially psychotic individuals to put ideas into their minds and even worse, compel them to carry out horrific acts is a concept that is often debated and perhaps rightfully so, and just as easily dismissed as such an insane person on that level would probably have been set […]
Team America: World Police Many times when it comes to political satire, the writers and creators of said humor will almost blatantly resort to projecting their own point of view completely from only one side of the political spectrum, resulting in the alienation and disgust of at least half of their audience (the past 20 […]
10 To Midnight As the old censorship code of Hollywood motion pictures faded in the late 1960s into the 70s and thus allowed elements of violence, profanity and sexual situations into mainstream movies, the first movies to capitalize on these kinds of creative freedoms were (obviously) horror, but as the 1980s approached, other established genres […]
Terminator Released in 1984 as a low-budget independent feature and wasting little time becoming a world wide sensation, James Cameron’s breakthrough film about a cyborg sent back through time to kill the mother of a future resistance leader (and the human soldier also sent back to protect her) works on so many levels it is […]
Terminator 2: Judgment Day When the original Terminator roared onto the screen in 1984, it blew audiences away with its dynamic, original sci fi premise, high octane action sequences done with a low budget, and indelible performances by Arnold Schwarzenegger as the fearsome title villain, Linda Hamilton as his imperiled prey, and Michael Biehn as […]
Terminator: Salvation Back in 1984, James Cameron’s original Terminator was a gritty, nihilistic, low budget masterpiece that rocked America’s consciousness, then in 1991, Cameron returned with T2, a moving, epic extravaganza with enough action to raise the bar for the genre forever. Many years later (without Cameron), came T3, which tried without success to negate […]
Terror Train The success of John Carpenter’s Halloween is of course responsible for setting off a slasher / horror wave of unprecedented proportions, so much so that even its star (Jamie Lee Curtis) quickly earned the title of “Scream Queen” for not only reprising her role of Laurie Strode in 1981’s Halloween 2, but for […]