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, […]
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 […]