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 […]
Tourist Angelina Jolie continues her nearly unbroken streak as (outside of Madonna) possibly the most repugnant major actress to ever star in major Hollywood movies. Worse, she looks as if both Father Time and Mother Nature have finally caught up to her, as she walks through most of this 2010 release made up to look […]
Tourist Trap Sometimes, when an older actor with a little bit of status through either movies or TV start getting on in years, they decide to set aside some of their prior reservations about certain standards which they had held regarding the types of roles that they would agree to, partially out of a desire […]
Tower Heist The trajectory of the career of one Eddie Murphy has been an intriguing yet sad one. Bursting onto the screen in 1982 with 48 Hrs, Murphy quickly and definitively made himself into a cinema comedy legend while only in his early 20s, creating a streak throughout the 1980s that was as indelible as […]
Town That Dreaded Sundown When is the marketing tagline “based on actual events” just a cover for the fact that it is promoting a really bad movie? Well in the case of this 1976 release, absolutely. Yes, it is based on a string of unsolved murders in 1946 Texarkana, Arkansas, but actual historians who had […]