World According To Garp When is a drama not really a drama? When does what appears to be a comedy sometimes become too serious for its own good? How can the balance possibly be maintained between both realms to create a rewarding cinematic experience? Perhaps the rarest of these types of films to actually work […]
World Gone Wild Basically a low-budget b-movie hybrid / homage of Road Warrior and Magnificent Seven, this is one of the great cable staples from the 80s to have slipped thru the cracks and become completely forgotten today. The story takes place fifty years after the nuclear holocaust and it has not rained since. Water […]
The Wrestler The opening montage of wrestling news articles certainly took me back to the days of the 80s when “mark” magazines like PWI ruled the day in coverage, as Aronofsky tells this story of a guy who could have been any number of different stars of the era, now fallen from grace. There is […]
Wrong Turn With its unappealing characters, a script that could have been written by one of its inbred villains, and total lack of originality in its attempt to mine the formula of classics like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, and Deliverance (which is directly mentioned in the dialogue), among others, this 2003 horror […]
X-3: The Last Stand While watching this entry, knowing the vitriol it had received, the one question that kept going thru my mind was, quite frankly, where’s the problem? This film is certainly a notch above the grossly overrated X2, with Bryan Singer and his political allegories eliminated from the big picture in place of […]
X2: X Men United Comic book movies that feature its superheroes as being part of a unified “team” concept (such as The Avengers) offer its filmmakers ample opportunities to cast big names and then set them loose together in the same room which is surely a prospect that many crave to see. But while the […]
X Files: I Want To Believe Finally, after nearly five years since the iconic 90s sci-fi show ended, creator Chris Carter has managed to get his stars back for this new adventure of his pop culture phenoms Mulder and Scully (though box office returns indicated that it may have been too little too late). Certainly […]
X-Men The genetic evolution of the modern comic book movie from highlighting singular heroes in their quest for justice (Superman, Batman, the underrated The Crow) to the onslaught of whole entire ensemble films featuring teams of heroes working together (Avengers, Justice League, Suicide Squad) was a gradual yet necessary process that was truly kickstarted by […]
X-Men Origins: Wolverine Well, it’s nice to know that in his fourth outing as the character, Hugh Jackman has finally settled comfortably into the role that made him a worldwide star: Gone is most of the tentativeness, the ridiculous posing, and the fake action hero postering that hampered his performances in the first three X […]