Basic Mystery thrillers go all the way back to the era of Hitchcock and beyond while the art of having plot twists and turns that throw the audience for a loop is something which we see in everything from The Usual Suspects to the collected works of M. Night Shyamalan, but one thing that usually […]
Basic Instinct It’s hard to believe that the genre of erotic thriller is now almost considered a lost cinematic art form of the 1990s. Featuring lurid stories consisting of deceitful women, betrayal, and lots and lots of sex, these films became a never ending staple on late night pay cable during that decade (practically leading […]
Basket Case Director Frank Henenlotter’s tribute to the low-budget grindhouse flicks of the 60s and 70s (dedicated to H.G. Lewis himself) is in and of itself one of the most gruesome and disturbing films of the actual genre it homages. The story of a young man who comes to New York City carrying a basket […]
Batman Tim Burton’s 1989 extravaganza of an adaptation (the first major comic book movie since the Donner Supermans) might surprise some to know that there was actually some legit controversy at the time of release due to its dark tone and violence, when in actuality it comes across today as almost the perfect kid’s movie, […]
Batman And Robin Joel Schumacher was actually a very good director, with a number of classics to his name (Lost Boys, Falling Down) but when he got connected to The Batman Franchise by way of an extremist reaction to Batman Returns which resulted in Tim Burton getting booted right out, Schumacher proved to be nothing […]
Batman Begins In terms of starting the tradition of doing fully drawn out origin stories for popular comic book superheroes, Christopher Nolan faced quite a few challenges with this 2005 release in order to mostly make it work, amongst them getting carried away above and beyond when telling a drawn out, almost minutely detailed by […]
Batman Forever The total and utter collapse of the Tim Burton / Michael Keaton Batman Universe is one of the most tragic in cinematic history. Burton as director had rocked most people’s consciousness with his 1989 franchise debut, proving that Batman can escape the shackles of its 1960s camp TV show origins and stand on […]
Batman Returns Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman was a long overdue shot in the arm for the Hollywood Comic Book Film (coming as it did after the Reeve Superman Series had long since played itself out), galvanizing the industry to slowly but surely get to the point where such movies are now cranked out with startling […]
Beast Within Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining pretty much had the market cornered on the killer horror movie concept of: What if (from a child’s point of view) you witnessed your very own father transform in front of you into a deranged, bloodthirsty monster fully capable of bringing harm upon both yourself and others? Not many […]
Beautiful Mind After his Academy Award win for Best Actor in 2000, Russell Crowe was seemingly on top of the world having garnered his Oscar for Gladiator, a grade A movie for men where he played a pure alpha male warrior in a violent, bloodshed filled environment. Crowe would then famously state that he was […]