Candyman The 1980s of course was The Golden Age Of The Franchise Horror Movie Villains, an era that produced horror films with sequels where the bad guy (usually of a supernatural stature) was always the main selling point to the extent that horror fans would come out almost to cheer on evil characters who were […]
Cannonball Run What’s wrong with comedies these days? It could be a lack of chemistry amongst their actors, or it could be scripts that are overwritten with certain sensibilities in mind that fall completely flat and settle for being merely somewhat witty instead of funny, or it could be that ALL of the talent involved […]
Cape Fear (Original) Cinema’s portrayals of pure evil started out as stock stereotypes but then evolved over the course of the next few decades. The Breakthrough Quantum Leap Missing Link Performance was obviously Anthony Perkins’ twisted Norman Bates in the Psycho franchise, a possibly mentally ill compulsive murderer with a fixation on his dead mother […]
Captain America ‘90 Richard Donner’s Superman movies and Tim Burton’s Batman (despite being almost 10 years apart) helped usher in what is now the modern age of glossy, non stop, big budget comic book action movies. The irony remains that these early, big budget in their own right productions were both from well known characters […]
Captain America: The First Avenger Now we have entered the winter of discontent in the modern era of comic book superhero films, as evidenced by this 2011 release that served as little more than a teaser for the big Avengers movie that followed it. Worse, it carries with it the one thing that NO “summer […]
Captivity I’ll admit it: I’m a big fan of Elisha Cuthbert from her work as Kim Bauer on the show 24. And here, in her second major starring role (after Girl Next Door), she manages to hold things together with her amazing feminine charisma. The film flaunts its plot holes right off the bat: We’re […]
Casino Is there any doubt that Martin Scorsese is the all time undisputed master of the gangster film? One of the reasons for that is his uncanny ability to make each film seem different and with a fresh perspective on the mob lifestyle, starting with the rough low budget proceedings of Mean Streets all the […]
Casino Royale The Bond films up through Pierce Brosnan had conformed into a lockstep mentality that had made them almost intolerable, with the same ol evil plots, cookie cutter villains and Bond Girls, and the nearly OCD tendency of the scripts to stick in the characters of Q and Moneypenny even if there was almost […]
Casino Royale ’67 Sometimes in the midst of what can best be called a VERY troubled production, something truly amazing can happen. The producers can wind up switching gears in midstream, rewrite the entire movie to have an entirely different kind of plot while still retaining all footage already shot, and manage through sheer lack […]