Long Riders With all the attention and adoration swirling around the recent Brad Pitt take on the Jesse James legend, it’s interesting to look back on this 1980 version of the tale, historically featuring four real-life sets of acting brothers for perhaps the first (and only) time. Unfortunately, it may also stand as arguably the […]
Lord Of Illusions When popular horror writers decide to take the chance of becoming a director in order to adapt their own material into a movie, there’s no real telling just how exactly it’s going to turn out. Stephen King himself would take the plunge only one time and the result was Maximum Overdrive which […]
Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring Fantasy has always been an iffy genre in the cinema realm, with it being something that’s not quite sci fi and not quite action, but is rather the idea of an entirely imaginary world being created where anything is possible in the context of the story […]
The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers After the nearly overwhelming cinematic goodness that was Fellowship Of the Ring, in 2002 it was time for the story to continue with franchise director Peter Jackson (who seemed to sacrifice his entire career while making constant adaptations of J.R.R Tolkien’s work to diminishing audience interest and […]
Lost Boys There are some directors who actually work best on what can be strictly called a for hire basis. In terms of visuals, camerawork, and style, their work can be downright masterful, although there’s less expertise when it comes to the areas of story, dialogue, and characters, usually because of them working from someone […]
Lost Boys 2: The Tribe First off, there’s no way that this follow-up 20+ years later could EVER be as good as Joel Schumacher’s seminal 80s classic about hard-partying teen vampires, but this 2008 effort makes a decent try in some aspects, most notably in some of the acting and cinematography, but still falls flat […]
Lost Highway The first and certainly the best of David Lynch’s “dual-personality” trilogy that also included Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire, while it certainly features his convoluted style, is still more enjoyable and accessible than the other two entries to be perhaps his most underrated work. Lynch meticulously takes his time in the early going, […]
Lost In Translation You know, Tokyo seems like such a beautiful city, peaceful and tranquil at times (as in the opening scene), yet so much more technologically advanced and civilized than much of the rest of the world, that one day, with lots of money and the right girl, I wouldn’t mind paying it a […]
Love At First Bite As a public domain character, Count Dracula has appeared in a nearly record number of films, a reliable franchise name who could always fill the role of either Lead or Side Villain as played by a countless number of big name actors such as Gary Oldman, Christopher Lee and most famously […]
Lovely Bones Sometimes books that were truly effective reads really don’t translate very well to the screen, and that seems to be the case with this 2009 adaptation of the story about a murdered 14 year old girl who narrates the story and watches over her family from Heaven, and comes off as being slow-paced, […]