Living Daylights One has to feel bad for Timothy Dalton: Chosen to (thankfully) replace Roger Moore as James Bond 007, and he winds up getting saddled with perhaps the worst film in the whole series, featuring a bad script, lousy and underdeveloped villains, and a decidedly below average Bond girl by series standards. Dalton certainly […]
Lock Up Prison movies generally fall into one of two categories, one of which is the serious, gritty type of dramas that (if wishing to be good) contains at least a minimum of violence with maybe just a dash of social commentary. Films of this type include Midnight Express, Papillion, and the underrated Tom Selleck […]
Lone Wolf McQuade Martial arts themed action films more often than not fall into the pit of well deserved obscurity because while it’s easy to find your prototypical hero actor of the genre to play the hero of said film, more often than not casting directors are left scrambling when it comes to the process […]
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, […]