Dredd Perhaps there is no other comic book superhero who is as audacious and controversial as one Judge Joseph Dredd, a postapocalyptic stormtrooper all-in-one law enforcement officer who has a penchant for summary executions of petty criminals, many of whom have just surrendered. Nonetheless, he became one of the most iconic comic book heroes garnering […]
Dressed To Kill Brian De Palma at one time had made a career and had been lauded (and criticized) for making movies that emulated the style of Alfred Hitchcock. Now while that IS true (to an extent), it also remains a fact that these “homage” films introduced a nearly pulsating undercurrent of sexuality that Hitchcock […]
Driven A film that pretty much does for the sport of Indy CART racing what Any Given Sunday does for football, this is a film that has drawn enormous criticism for its lack of realism, but then again how many popular movies about other professions can say otherwise? The film follows a group of racers, […]
The Driver Action movies are almost always noted for their excessive nature, that eternal tendency to throw everything and the kitchen sink into the equation. Certainly Walter Hill, a director who is renowned for a number of action classics, is every bit as guilty for overloading his films with over the top sequences as anybody, […]
Duck Soup In 1933, The Marx Brothers would come out with this, their fifth effort as a movie comedy team. Sadly, it would be the last ever film appearance for Zeppo who quit film acting entirely after this, becoming a talent agent along with a number of other pursuits, citing how he was tired of […]
Dune Few literary works in history are as complex and multi layered as Frank Herbert’s 1965 science fiction opus Dune, an epic tale that not only covers the human race nearly 10,000 years from now, but also its evolution, having long since abandoned Earth to now inhabit a cluster of four planets all within the […]
Easy Rider It can be best often said that the ability of a simple movie to sum up an entire decade, or rather, an entire era within the confines of its running time can be considered the greatest of all cinematic achievements, and director Dennis Hopper certainly accomplished that with his 1969 Grand Masterpiece, a […]
