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 […]
Cast Away I understand that one can accept product placement as a necessary evil in Hollywood movies, but when one movie becomes so obviously obsessed with promoting one particular brand name or product at the artistic expense of the story itself, then something has to be said, as with this 2000 movie that is so […]
Cat People ‘82 As fun as erotic thrillers were in the 1990s with their quasi porn tendencies, the darkness of their tone would be eclipsed eventually by what would be known as erotic horror movies, most of which would be so depraved that only a specialized audience would be willing to seek out and watch […]
Catch Me If You Can The evolution of Leonardo DiCaprio’s acting talent can be looked at in a upward curve starting with 1997’s megahit Titanic, a movie with terrible writing, terrible acting and a lead performance by DiCaprio that redefined the terms smug, smarmy, shallow and unlikable, but the movie just so happened to be […]
Chances Are Reincarnation remains among the hokiest and flimsiest of any theological or spiritual beliefs, the concept that all of us amongst the living have led “past lives” which in turn compels us to somehow accept the notion that even though we have absolutely zero recollection throughout our current existence of whom we once were […]
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory This “faithful adaptation” of Roald Dahl’s classic novel, and de facto remake of the 1971 Gene Wilder childen’s favorite (and cult classic for LSD lovers everywhere), brings the unique visionary skills of Tim Burton to life yet again. As the opening titles began, I mused on how the music scores […]
The Chase The American South has always suffered from a duality issue in terms of its overall image as known in America (and the world). On one hand, they are said (mostly by Southerners themselves) to be a simple, God fearing people, adhering to Christian values and a belief in the goodness of themselves. On […]
Cherry Falls As Scream reinvented the slasher movie genre in the late 1990s with an entirely new formula that included pretty young actors both male and female, a goofy irrelevant sense of humor amongst the characters and lots and lots of irony, almost immediately a lower rung of filmmakers rushed to emulate what Wes Craven […]