From Russia With Love Right off the bat (with a bizarre opening sequence showing a Bond clone being killed in a training exercise), the viewer can see the improvements over the stylistically weak Dr. No: The villains (including the first appearance of Ernst Stavro Blofeld) are introduced early, and are good; the budget, locations, and […]
Frost/Nixon In bringing to life arguably the most famous political interview of all time, Ron Howard succeeds in making one of his best (and certainly to be underrated as the years go on) films ever. Howard does a fine job of depicting how in the mid 70s as the administrations of Ford and then Carter […]
Full Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam opus was severely overshadowed in its time of release by Oliver Stone’s Platoon the year before, but there can be no doubt that this is the superior film in every way and deserved multiple 1987 Oscars. It’s also my opinion that despite the brilliant fast-paced opening 45 minutes in […]
Funhouse Tobe Hooper remains to this day one of the most truly underrated of horror filmmakers which in some ways is understandable given his first initial effort. 1974’s original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre left an indelible mark on all of cinema for all time, an achievement in horror that no other filmmaker in the […]
Funny Farm Chevy Chase’s stature as being one of the funniest human beings to exist during the 1980s remains forever intact, but the interesting thing about his legacy is that compared to his other esteemed peers of the time, he starred in almost as many duds as he did undisputed comedy classics, a phenomenon that […]
The Fury With 1976’s Carrie, many people felt that Brian De Palma had created a horror classic that would be the last word in the field of psychic and telekinetic ablity. But (aside from Sissy Spacek’s remarkable acting), a closer look reveals something else, a film that for ¾ of its running time played off […]
G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra In making this live action adaptation of the 80s cartoon and action figure line, one must remember this: the ORIGINAL CONCEPT was a super cheesy pseudo-military claptrap with heroic elite soldiers battling an evil organization who wanted to take over the world, nothing more than that. So, director Stephen […]
Galaxy Quest There may no more sadder or more pathetic type of people in this world than sci-fi / fantasy convention goers, a motley lot that attends these events dressed up in intricate detail as their favorite characters and worse, spend seemingly inordinate amounts of disposable income to meet and get autographs with the mostly […]