Waterworld: Director’s Cut As pure an example of a failed epic as there’s ever been made, this 1995 monstrosity (which carried a then-record budget of $175 million) tries hard to be different with its setting and apocalyptic take, as apparently Al Gore’s worst nightmare has come true and the polar icecaps have melted, leaving the […]
Waxwork Straight up genre homage films are usually considered to be a risky gamble, going to great lengths to recreate a scene (or scenes) from other, better known movies to weave into the fabric of their own storyline, and if not done just the right way, usually inspiring jeers of derision from its more knowledgeable […]
Wayne’s World If there’s any comedy star in recent cinema history who is more misunderstood than most, it would have to be Mike Myers, whom (according to most accounts) is said to take his particular style of comedy very seriously to that of almost a perfectionist level, a far cry from the usually breezy, lighthearted […]
Wayne’s World 2 Looking back, it’s easy to see the basic appeal of the Wayne’s World movies in that they were comedies about two (obviously) adult males who had simply refused to grow up (and not in the Michael Jackson / Peter Pan kind of way). They and their friends would spend their lives tooling […]
Weird Science John Hughes established himself so quickly and strongly in the “teen comedy” genre in the early 80s with Sixteen Candles and Breakfast Club (an undisputed classic anyway you cut it) that when the time came in 1985 to make his next film, the studio basically handed him a blank check and told him […]
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare Wes Craven spent much of the 90s making what can best be called self reflective, ironic type horror films, ones that told their own story while still commenting on the current state of the horror industry itself. The Scream Trilogy is probably the most popular and famous of these works, but […]
What Lies Beneath There really is nothing like a GOOD suspense thriller, which takes the time to build mood and atmosphere, and knowing just the right time to get things really going. Sadly, that is not the case with this 2000 film from legendary Oscar-winning director Robert Zemeckis and starring two of the greatest movie […]
Where The Buffalo Roam The cinematic renderings (and portrayals) of one Dr. Hunter S. Thompson have ultimately turned out to be a mixed bag, perhaps because Thompson himself was such a crazed yet enigmatic figure. The original, one, true “Gonzo Journalist” (even as several others have since professed to have taken after him but never […]