MASH The unusual phenomenom of trying to “recreate” popular movies into the realm of weekly TV shows was one that was almost always destined for failure, which is perfectly understandable when one watches a TV series where beloved movie characters are now being played by lesser TV actors (or minor characters played by the same […]
MacGruber Action comedies, no matter how elaborate, are usually a pretty risky proposition, not only because the fans of such films devotedly love the known stable of genre stars (Arnie, Sly, etc..) but also because the clichés of the whole storytelling style (especially villain mistakes) are almost equally beloved in their own right. It probably […]
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior 1979’s Mad Max was an action film that quite literally became a quantum leap for its genre, featuring car chases and violence that blew away anything that had come before it including everything that had been seen in American cinema as well and on a low budget at that. […]
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Anybody who still buys into the absurd belief that anyone besides Mel Gibson was EVER qualified to play the role of Mad Max Rockatansky need only look at this third entry in the series from 1985, easily the most disjointed, uneven film in the franchise and yet still Gibson is at […]
Made Of Honor Basically a gender-reversed remake of the superior Julia Roberts chick-flick My Best Friend’s Wedding, what we have here is what happens when a hugely popular TV star (Grey’s Anatomy’s Patrick Dempsey) decides to spend his off-season doing a project that should be virtually no challenge to his persona and acting skills. Dempsey […]
Magnum Force 1971’s Dirty Harry remains arguably the finest crime drama ever produced and is certainly the single best film of Clint Eastwood’s storied career. Telling the story of a tough cop whose methods of law enforcement bordered on being nearly vigilante like, the film also made a point that the Harry Callahan character’s forceful […]
Major League Sports movies have usually fared best by being done up as comedies, mostly to show a lighter side to the ultra macho mindset adopted by many of the athletes who get paid to take part in said sport, although occasionally a quality sports drama has been known to slip through the cracks as […]
Maltese Falcon Considered by many to be one of the best products to come out of Old Hollywood in 1941, this revered classic which saw the directorial debut of John Huston and launched Humphrey Bogart into stardom, sadly does not hold up too well when viewed through the modern day perspective, tending to come across […]