Porky’s 2: The Next Day The incredibly smart decision to allow Bob Clark to return to direct the sequel to his raunch classic is probably the best thing about this movie. The pace and the flow are nearly as good as the original, and the reference to Clark’s own Christmas Story (involving the “major award”) […]
Poseidon Adventure Disaster films that were so popular in the 1970s essentially were what they were, movies that featured epic scenes of wanton destruction while basing their stories on people trying to survive, but always with a big, all star ensemble of names who had all pretty much accepted the fact that winning an Oscar […]
Postman Sometimes a movie can come out where a major, massive misunderstanding will occur when it comes to that movie’s themes and subject matter, regardless of any of the positive qualities that said movie might actually possess. The cause of this misunderstanding can be any number of different factors, but mainly it all comes down […]
Predator Remembered today as one of the best pure action movies ever made as well as the most succinct fusion of that genre with sci-fi, this 1987 classic from director John (Die Hard) McTiernan of course brings front and center the undisputed king of 80s action in Arnold Schwarzenegger as Dutch, the leader of a […]
Predator 2 The original 1987 Predator remains in many ways an untouchable sci fi / action masterpiece, theoretically impossible to top by almost any standards imaginable with one Arnold Schwarzenegger (in his prime) being horrified watching his brothers in arms getting cut down one by one before donning his warpaint and squaring off with the […]
Prestige Christopher Nolan has proven that he is one of the last few Hollywood filmmakers capable of making almost totally original work, or at least original takes on familiar work (Dark Knight), so it’s little surprise when watching this 2006 release just how little it references from the past and comes across as something made […]
Pretty Woman Prostitution in Hollywood cinema has always been portrayed in a problematic way, with beautiful (not usually true), scantily clad young women strutting on camera while being looked after by a zoot suited pimp or Harvey Keitel. When budding screenwriter extraordinaire J.F. Lawton put together his own script on the perils of prostitution, he […]
Primal Fear Basically the film that will always be remembered as the one that unleashed the tremendous acting talents of Edward Norton on the world, this also manages to be a solid, if flawed, courtroom drama. As Aaron Stampler, altar boy turned accused murderer, Norton manages to convince the viewer (and the other characters) of […]
Prime Cut Organized crime movie villains are generally involved in the usual vices: narcotics, gambling, weapons, bootlegging. But up until the recent release of The Sound Of Freedom, very few if any Hollywood films would feature full on antagonists who would engage in the horrific practice of child sex trafficking, a very real life criminal […]