Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Undoubtedly one of David Lynch’s most popular creations (if not his best) was the network TV show Twin Peaks, a series that utilized Lynch’s trademark oddball style in the format of a prime time soap opera, featuring a slew of very weird characters (played by some very respectable actors) […]
2001: A Space Odyssey Routinely cited as the greatest of all Kubrick movies, it can be said that this is certainly Kubrick’s best-LOOKING movie: The visuals are astounding even today, living proof that models and miniatures are much more worth the trouble than CGI will ever be, and just how in 1968 Kubrick managed that […]
Two Thousand Maniacs! The second in H.G. Lewis’ infamous “Blood Trilogy” (after Blood Feast) is in many ways better than its predecessor, with improved production values, an actual music soundtrack, and an encompassing feeling of dread throughout disguised by what appears on the surface to be down home country boy humor. The plot (inspired by […]
U Turn Sometimes even the greatest of directors can be known to stretch their wings and attempt to fly in a new direction. Even when said director is one whose work has already been considered on a regular basis to be the best of his generation. Such a director is Oliver Stone, whose output throughout […]
Ugly Truth You know, in this day and age where so-called “men” try to flaunt their sensitive side by prancing around in women’s shoes all the while getting themselves tattoos in order to mask their huge emotional insecurities, what it all comes down to is that at the end of the day (unless they consider […]
UHF Is there a more underappreciated comedy genius maybe ever than the one and only “Weird” Al Yankovic? Here’s a man who managed to become a household name in the 1980s with his on target, sidesplitting parodies of such popular songs as Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” and Madonna’s “Like A Virgin” (along with his near […]
Unbreakable After his daring, Oscar nominated, phenomenom with a twist ending called The Sixth Sense that rocked the world in 1998, M. Knight Shylamalan would return two years later with a movie that was HORRIBLY mismarketed upon release as a story about a man who cheats death and questions his own mortality (ala Fearless) but […]
Uncle Buck The life and career of John Candy can best be described as both melancholic and sad. Possessing an amazing talent for improvisation and an enormous amount of charisma despite being over 300 lbs, it is also notable that literally nobody that he ever worked with ever had a bad word to say about […]
Uncommon Valor There’s no doubt that the Vietnam War tore the heart out of the American military establishment, leaving forever unhealed scars for both the mentally damaged soldiers that returned and worse, for those brave men that were literally left behind and later hung out to dry by a government that didn’t seem to care […]
Under Siege At one time, the popularity of the Die Hard series was so huge that several other producers were itching to enter the sweepstakes themselves by coming up with their own variations on the formula which would of course involve terrorists taking over a place where people were at and holding them hostage while […]