127 Hours Adrenaline junkies are among the most odd type of people, those who take their lives in their own hands (and sometimes lose it) all for the sake of a rather ridiculous, unnecessary thrill. Oftentimes movies about such characters can be a bit obnoxious, but this 2010 release by director Danny Boyle is nearly […]
Hunger Games Stephen King’s Running Man (written under his alias Richard Bachman) was one of the all time great dystopian novels about the future, depicting a society where poor people compete in brutal competition risking their lives for a little extra food or money (with the Arnold movie switching it up to criminals competing for […]
The Hunger From Bram Stoker to Anne Rice to Stephenie Meyer, various writers have written various books about the mythos of being a vampire, an immortal being which feeds on human blood to survive. Most of these writers seem to feel that to be such a creature can almost be a fantastic adventure, never growing […]
Hurricane Sometimes it can be hard to review a movie such as this 1999 release, a film that is acted and made well enough in the service of a basically dishonest, one-sided screenplay that has since been proven to be rife with factual inaccuracies about the real life story at hand. Denzel Washington stars as […]
Hurt Locker I remember when the art of the War Movie was to make an oblique masterpiece where War itself was really a metaphor for the human condition, which resulted in such works as Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket. Then, starting with Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down, the idea was to take the genre […]
The Hustler Considered by many to be the film that popularized the game of pool nationwide following its release, Robert Rossen’s 1961 classic is actually a fairly, downbeat, depressing story about a born loser with all the talent in the world at the game yet usually comes undone by his own personal flaws. Significant is […]
I Spit On Your Grave Rape revenge movies are among the few genuinely controversial subgenres in cinema history. It’s good that the bad guys get what’s coming to them, but how oh how is the ACTUAL RAPE SCENE presented?? This nugget of mystery was solved for the first time ever (and only time necessary) with […]
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka Probably the most fun side effect to come from the success of the civil rights movement was the emergence of Black Action Cinema, otherwise known as blaxspoitation. With Hollywood finally embracing the notion that genre movies with mostly black casts (and with them always playing the heroes) can be profitable, […]
Ice Pirates Sometimes, a movie comes along that (rightfully) bombs with both critics and audiences but it also contains the kernels of some good ideas within its story and structure, ones that still strike a note of fresh originality to this day. That description certainly applies to this 1984 release, on the surface a pedestrian […]