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 […]
Mamma Mia! This adaptation of the popular stage musical where songs from the 70s disco group ABBA are used to “progress the story” would’ve worked a lot better if the songs had any real relevance to the plot at hand. Sure, there are some catchy dittys here, but the disconnected feeling they evoke merely give […]
Man In The Iron Mask Leonardo DiCaprio certainly took his sweet time after Titanic to enable himself some on the job training so that he may improve as an actor by working with names like Scorsese and Spielberg, but this 1998 effort done in the afterglow of the sinking ship epic came at the height […]
Man Of Steel Such was the enormous amount of respect that Hollywood had for the contributions of both Christopher Reeve and Richard Donner to the Superman cinematic legacy that in 2006, an unofficial “final chapter” to the Reeve saga was made without either the services of Reeve (who had died a couple of years earlier) […]
Man Who Wasn’t There Sometimes it is truly amazing to see the kind of stuff that the Brothers Coen (Joel and Ethan) come up with literally off the top of their heads, because whenever they write up an original story and screenplay (with the exception of the awful No Country For Old Men), it’s at […]
Man With The Golden Gun As the James Bond series got into its ninth entry, long gone was the Blofeld / SPECTRE continuing storyline, as each entry now became a “stand-alone” story, and greatly improved in the process. Roger Moore (in his second outing) continues to show the coolness and cockiness that made his Bond […]
Manhunter (Director’s Cut) Michael Mann could possibly be the greatest director who ever lived who has only directed a relative handful of great films (and a few bad ones). This 1986 release, forever known as the “first” Hannibal Lecter movie (even though Lecter only gets about 10 minutes of screen time and is played by […]