Time Bandits A quality children’s film is not always exactly quality family entertainment, such as the ones where the kids drag the parents to see the latest G rated sensation so that the little tykes can bob up and down happily while the poor parents are bobbing their heads up and down because the film […]
Timecop Of all the major action stars that graced the screen during the golden age of the genre in the 1980s and 1990s, Jean-Claude Van Damme remains almost indisputably the worst actor out of all of them. He certainly had the look and the requisite fighting ability. However, unlike Arnold he was never able to […]
To Live And Die In LA After more or less inventing the action movie with 1971’s French Connection (and winning an Oscar for it), director William Friedkin literally reinvents the genre in 1985 with this powerful, entertaining, spectacularly original entry about a secret service agent (CSI’s William Petersen) obsessed with bringing down the counterfeiter (Willem […]
Tombstone If there’s any such thing as a film that can be considered a “rite of passage” for boys to watch in the process of helping them to become men, it may very well be this 1993 Western Classic by director George Pan Cosmatos (with reportedly a LOT of assistance from star Kurt Russell) detailing […]
Tommy With this spellbinding Grand Masterpiece that sees the Undisputed Greatest Rock Opera Of All Time adapted into arguably the greatest Rock Musical Ever Made, Ken Russell virtually invented the concept of the music video as we know it today. Combining a bright multi-color palatte with kitschy but cool production design and some truly eyepopping […]
Tomorrow Never Dies For the second outing of Pierce Brosnan as James Bond 007, the producers decided to take a storyline ripped right from the headlines: Having Bond take on a insane, super-rich media mogul who seems to be a combination of Ted Turner, George Soros, and Bill Gates, and certainly the action and pacing […]
Top Secret! After the blockbuster success of 1980’s Airplane!, the legendary movie comedy writing / directing trio known as ZAZ (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker) were immediately besieged with offers to come up with a sequel almost right away, something which they declined on the not so unreasonable basis that there were other […]
Total Recall (Original) Released in 1990 and unfairly saddled with a shitty remake less than 25 years later, Paul Verhoeven’s high octane classic manages to be the best of both particular worlds: a bloody, carnage strewn, action masterpiece, and a twisty, mind bending, innovative sci-fi classic, adapted from Philip K. Dick’s short story, We Can […]
