JFK 50 years after the fact, the JFK assassination remains still the biggest obsession for the collective American psyche in history, with the idea that an organized conspiracy worked together to literally and physically remove a President from office through the act of cold blooded, deliberate murder still boggling people’s minds with the mass speculation […]
Vampires Long after his Hall Of Fame status was cemented as being undoubtedly the greatest sci fi / horror genre director to ever live, John Carpenter began to go into a severe tailspin when it came to the actual quality of his work: the Lovecraft inspired classic In The Mouth Of Madness notwithstanding, the 90s […]
John Wick Is there anybody more underrated than Keanu Reeves? Long blasted by critics for years for what is perceived as him having a rather monotone, deadpan acting style, Reeves has more than made up for it with an abundance of charisma, screen presence and also rising to the occasion when paired with top flight […]
Johnny Mnemonic Certainly a lot can be said about the slam bang career of one Keanu Reeves, a guy who has successfully starred in multiple franchises (Matrix, John Wick, Bill And Ted) along with anchoring some absolute classics during the course of his long run in Hollywood all while spending years being chastised by critics […]
Joker Surely it seemed to be a completely insurmountable task to even consider anyone trying to follow in Heath Ledger’s footsteps following his Oscar winning performance as The Joker in 2008’s Dark Knight. Literally throwing himself so much into the role that a case can be made that it eventually cost the actor his own […]
Judge Dredd Comic book movies are not as simple to make as one may think, and they certainly involve much more than just adapting a particular book frame by frame into screenplay form (as Alex Tse reportedly did with his Watchmen script before it was subjected to severe rewrites). One of the reasons for this […]
Judgment Night First off, any film that takes a strong influence from Walter Hill’s Warriors definitely has a good thing going on. With the aid of the outstanding cinematography and production design, Stephen Hopkins succeeds in making a “wrong turn” off the freeway become an entrance into an inner-city hell, almost like it’s a world […]
Just Before Dawn While a lot people define the “original backwoods horror movie” as being Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the truth is that the original prototype for the whole subgenre was really John Boorman’s Deliverance, a film often wrongly labeled as an “action revenge drama” but in reality is just a pure piece of […]