Total Recall (Original) Released in 1990 and unfairly saddled with a shitty remake less than 25 years later, Paul Verhoeven’s high octane classic manages to be the best of both particular worlds: a bloody, carnage strewn, action masterpiece, and a twisty, mind bending, innovative sci-fi classic, adapted from Philip K. Dick’s short story, We Can […]
Tourist Angelina Jolie continues her nearly unbroken streak as (outside of Madonna) possibly the most repugnant major actress to ever star in major Hollywood movies. Worse, she looks as if both Father Time and Mother Nature have finally caught up to her, as she walks through most of this 2010 release made up to look […]
Tourist Trap Sometimes, when an older actor with a little bit of status through either movies or TV start getting on in years, they decide to set aside some of their prior reservations about certain standards which they had held regarding the types of roles that they would agree to, partially out of a desire […]
Tower Heist The trajectory of the career of one Eddie Murphy has been an intriguing yet sad one. Bursting onto the screen in 1982 with 48 Hrs, Murphy quickly and definitively made himself into a cinema comedy legend while only in his early 20s, creating a streak throughout the 1980s that was as indelible as […]
Town That Dreaded Sundown When is the marketing tagline “based on actual events” just a cover for the fact that it is promoting a really bad movie? Well in the case of this 1976 release, absolutely. Yes, it is based on a string of unsolved murders in 1946 Texarkana, Arkansas, but actual historians who had […]
Toxic Avenger The realm of low budget, exploitation cinema might also be the most hit or miss of its kind in the entire artistic landscape. While some revel in the bad Ed Wood style of filmmaking, amateur hour acting, and sloppy as hell production values, most people have little use for these types of films […]
The Toy You really have to hand it to the 80s, they were always trying out new ideas for comedies, and unlike today’s ultra baby-soft mentality when it come to material, back then if the idea was good, then political correctness be damned, even when it comes to a family movie like this one. Even […]
Toys For quite a number of years, Robin Williams was the reigning “manchild” in Hollywood movies, as many of his performances involved him exuberantly acting like a little kid, up to and including his performance as Peter Pan. Unfortunately, since everyone was forced to play it straight opposite him, it made his roles stick out […]
Trading Places John Landis was a legendary director who had already done a number of comedy classics before he added a little extra edge to his work: making classic comedies that also featured insane, over the top action sequences utilizing extensive stuntwork (most notably The Blues Brothers). That all ended with his work on Twilight […]