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 […]
George A. Romero’s Land Of The Dead One would think that the Godfather of the Zombie Subgenre himself would have been able to look around and see the hordes of little-to-no-talent amateur filmmakers who have devoted countless hours to ripping off his work and seen that it was probably better to let the subgenre die […]
Get Shorty Hollywood movies about Hollywood life (especially comedies) can be amongst the trickiest for any filmmaker to adequately pull off, in many ways because the subject matter can come across as being bizarrely unrealistic for those involved in the industry who were not involved directly in the movie itself and thus can see the […]
Ghost Sometimes, a film can come out that can not only literally make the careers of its three stars, but also take what should have been (and in some ways still is) an incredibly dreary premise and find a way to make it such light entertainment that it becomes a worldwide box office phenomenon and […]
Ghost Rider Sometimes in the neverending cycle of comic book movies, some of the best and most interesting ones were those that covered the second tier or “B” level heroes of the genre (The Punisher, The Crow, Judge Dredd) while the so called “mainstream” heroes with their movies can get increasingly boring and repetitive, possibly […]
Ghostbusters Pop culture phenomenons happen all the time nowadays in our spoonfed entertainment media, but to have something still retain its “coolness” factor almost 30 years later is a rare thing indeed. But, that is what has happened with this release from 1984, a convergence of some of the best and most brilliant minds in […]
Ghostbusters 2 At one time there was a feeling that the best example of any given sequel would be where it can be described as definitely “solid”, something that could even be argued was the highest possible compliment which it could receive. The positive dynamics of a typical franchise chapter were actually not so complicated: […]
Gimme Shelter After the near overwhelming success of the original Woodstock concert in 1969, a number of other festivals were held in an attempt to (if nothing else) recreate the positive vibes of the era that the granddaddy event had brought to the table and none was planned to be any bigger than the Altamont […]