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 […]
Maniac There is no doubt that the current younger generation weaned on PG-13 horror movies featuring little girl ghosts popping up and scaring people to death will find it VERY hard to digest this 1980 entry from director William Lustig which features the most notable lead role from the late prolific character actor Joe Spinell […]
Maniac Cop 80s Horror will probably always remain the best kind of horror, even down to the b-movies, mostly because the scripts were usually spot on and filled with original, unpredictable characters, plus the exposure these lower end movies got on late night pay cable (which is virtually unheard of today) guaranteed that they would […]
Marc Pease Experience It’s remarkable sometimes how a big budget studio movie can be made featuring major stars, but yet mostly because the studio bosses realized what a stinker it is, winds up burying it in limited release before sending it directly onto DVD. Thus is the case with this production, shot on location here […]