Lake House Time travel movies often fluctuate between wild and wacky comedy (Back To The Future, Bill And Ted) and something that tries to be serious but usually straddles the line of falling into ridiculousness (Timecop, Trancers). But the trickiest thing of all might be to use the concept of time travel to tell either […]
Last Action Hero Intended to be a paean as to why we all love going to the movies and watching mindless action films, this 1993 release was slammed by the critics when it came out and garnered less than impressive box office results, but has since endured over the years to at least become recognized […]
Last Boy Scout High octane action movies were at a preminum during the 1980s with Arnold, Sly, Bruce, and many other guys in their prime kicking ass and taking names to the delight of audiences everywhere as they defeated bad guys who either were of a disagreeable political ideology or were just some nasty dudes […]
Last Days Of Frankie The Fly After the massive success of Pulp Fiction, a lot of film companies (usually indie outfits) started looking for their own kind of similar hit, leading to the greenlighting at the time of several offbeat, “quirky” crime films, which leads to this release from 1996, certainly a curiosity item from […]
Last Detail Sometimes with a movie (especially one considered a “classic”) the individual parts (performances, writing, cinematography) of said movie can actually be thought of as being even greater than the entire whole of the film itself. This usually happens due to a misstep on the director’s part, given a script and story with certain […]
Last Dragon If there’s one thing that the everlasting legacy of Bruce Lee left as an impression upon our modern culture, it’s that the fully embraced practicing of martial arts was much, much more than simply being able to fight impressively, but also rather some convoluted way to attain spiritual enlightenment and mastery of all […]
Last Man Standing Legendary and underrated director Walter Hill’s attempt to do a modern day update on Kurosawa’s Yojimbo (and Leone’s Fistful Of Dollars) certainly LOOKS good: The brown, dusty, sepia-colored tones of the cinematography seems to give this story a timeless feel, even if it’s clearly set in the 1920s Prohibition era. As Willis’ […]
Last Movie In 1969, Dennis Hopper was the toast of Hollywood having changed the cinematic landscape forever with a little film called Easy Rider and cementing the longtime antiestablishment rebel himself (who had always had numerous clashes with many of his peers in Hollywood) as an undisputed genius and all of the additional accolades that […]
Last Stand Arnold Schwarzenegger remains to this day the greatest of all action movie stars, a guy whom while he wasn’t a driving creative force in the genre (like Stallone) was still someone who brought an unmistakable presence and air about him that nobody else could ever touch (including Stallone). A string of classics in […]
Last Starfighter Amid all the cheesy and blatant references to Star Wars (and the use of several Star Trek guest stars in minor roles), this is actually a fun and enjoyable sci-fi write-off from the 1980s in the hands of director Nick Castle (best remembered as Michael Myers in the original Halloween). As Alex Rogan, […]