Three Kings The First Gulf War in 91 was a relatively simple affair by most standards, a basic sweep and clear of the invading Iraqi forces into Kuwait, no great victory by any means, but certainly not a fiasco either. That said, the cinematic potential for stories about the conflict wind up being pretty limited, […]
Three O’Clock High By 1987, the so called 80s high school comedy had seemed to touch on nearly every nook and cranny of teenage life, especially in the work of John Hughes in particular and the remaining avenues for viable storylines and subjects had started to get pretty thin. Black comedy was probably the only […]
3:10 To Yuma Both an action-packed Western and a compelling allegory of the Christian faith, director James Mangold comes up with the absolute best the genre has seen in a long time. As the legendary Robin Hood / Billy The Kid type outlaw, Russell Crowe pretty much tops himself again, giving us a bad guy […]
Thunderball After the smashing success of Goldfinger, here we get perhaps the most GENERIC of all the Bond movies, symbolized by the return of Terence Young to the director’s chair instead of the prior film’s Guy Hamilton, and with it, the sluggish pacing returns with a vengeance. After an opening which features Bond slugging it […]
Time After Time The key central core to any quality science fiction movie or TV show is that of having a good, strong basic story, not a far out psychedelic collection of “wildly original ideas” that only appeal to the hardcore, sci fi loving, saliva covered adult male virgin for whom a relationship with an […]
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 […]