Marked For Death Steven Seagal action films have always been renown for their utter simplicity perhaps because Seagal himself (while having always possessed tremendous screen presence) was so perceived as being limited in his acting abilities that many of his movies serve little purpose than to establish the bad guys and what makes them so […]
Married To The Mob Jonathan Demme may (rightfully so) seem like a one-hit wonder to many people for making the unforgettable masterpiece Silence Of The Lambs, but a look at the rest of his resume reveals this earlier work from 1988, a fun Mafia spoof that ironically is only hampered by its director’s reluctance to […]
Mars Attacks! With its high-octane cast reduced to playing roles so paper thin that if you throw water on them they would dissolve, Tim Burton’s 1996 opus (released the same year as the superior Independence Day) gives us the rather demented premise of, what if aliens came to our planet and spurned the hopes of […]
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein The early 90s saw quite the revival in old school horror movie monsters being dredged back up by Hollywood for what was at the time fresh new versions of popular old stories and character types. We got to see Tom Cruise play a vampire (Lestat), Jack Nicholson play a werewolf (Wolf) and […]
Mask The meteoric rise to superstardom of Jim Carrey in 1994 was unprecedented both at that time and even today. A longtime supporting actor in comedies who managed to get his name even more well known on the alternative sketch comedy show In Living Color, Carrey hit a triple jackpot that year with the back […]
Masters Of The Universe No doubt about it: The Adventures Of He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe EPITOMIZED The 1980s, starting off as a popular line of toys and action figures who always came with their own cheap little comic book (usually detailing the backstory of both the action figure character and their connection […]
Matrix Some might say that we have all been hitting the bottom of the barrel in the last few years when it comes to the quality of the movies (and music) that we have been subjected to, with everything that is “new” really being boring, derivative and unimaginative but more importantly paling in vast comparison […]
Matrix Reloaded It’s one thing for a (highly anticipated) sequel to purposely up the ante from the original smash hit that it was spawned from, but it’s quite another thing to set out to literally try to (at least subtly) rip up the very same rulebook that had been laid out so fastidiously in the […]
Matrix Revolutions The third chapter in the revered Matrix Trilogy introduces some good, original ideas, but sadly fails to capitalize on them choosing instead to downgrade certain characters in their stature, focus on an overdone and overlong battle scene where the CGI flows like wine and also maintain a slower pace without having a truly […]
Maximum Overdrive Sometimes when one is on the fringes of their creative abilities, so burned out while being in an environment that they are neither familiar nor comfortable with, the slightest edges of genius can come out and dance in front of the viewer’s eyes in such an unorthodox way that one can only applaud […]