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 […]
TerrorVision It’s pretty amazing that in this day and age of the 4K / Blu Ray / Home Media / Streaming boom, where various older films and TV shows are constantly being remastered and released in crystal clear high definition presentations, the demands of the market have seen a remarkable downturn in the said remastering […]
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original) Sometimes in the history of cinema there are those films that literally change the world, and in this case we have the 1974 Supreme Classic by Tobe Hooper, a movie that reshaped and redefined horror so much so to the point that the genre went from being a fairly low regarded, […]
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 Horror sequels too often are known to go for the tired retread or outright remake route, doing everything they can to take known characters and elements and just try to be “faithful” to the original without going anywhere particularly new and fresh with the material. For reasons such as this and […]
There Will Be Blood Well, I can say it, the Oscars bore witness to a screwjob, as the mediocre No Country beat out this searing indictment of one man’s soul. Daniel Day-Lewis truly does own the shit as Daniel Plainview who, over the three-hour running time, descends into a twisted human being who at the […]