Sudden Impact The Dirty Harry series officially lurched into the 80s with this release in 1983 and what made this one “special” for so many was the fact that for the first (and only) time in the franchise, Clint Eastwood himself would step into the director’s chair and take on the reins here, directing a […]
Sunset Boulevard The Roaring 20s certainly saw its share of raucous behavior and nowhere more so than in the Hollywood silent film industry, a place where many dark secrets would disappear into a gigantic black hole, never to be found out. From the recesses of the decadence would the sound film era begin with a […]
Super Mario Bros. Sometimes, just sometimes, a train wreck can be fun to watch. That certainly applies to this 1993 release (based off the forever popular video game series) about two goofball Brooklyn plumbers sucked into an alternate universe where dinosaurs have evolved into human-like creatures and only they can save both our and their […]
Superman 2: The Richard Donner Cut Hollywood is filled with stories about films that were intended to be a particular way by its visionary director, epic treats that were certain to go amongst the best of their kind ever made, but never quite came to fruition because The Artist (director) had certain falling outs with […]
Superman 3 The production of Richard Donner’s first two Superman movies starring Christopher Reeve saw witness to a traumatic power struggle that in many ways would ultimately destroy that incarnation of the franchise. It all started when British journeyman director Richard Lester was hired by the producers as an onset “consultant” while Donner was still […]
Superman 4: The Quest For Peace And thus in 1987 came the final crash and burn of the once revered Christopher Reeve Superman Legacy with this release whose greatest sin perhaps lies in the untold potential which the film had to not only be the best in the series, but to bring ultimate full circle […]
Superman Returns The Superman Movie Franchise that starred Christopher Reeve was a groundbreaking phenomenon that set an impossibly high bar for a type of film during an era in which there was nothing else like it (and long before they became a fast food flavored, no big deal type of “event” film like they are […]
Superman: The Movie And to think that there was a time when comic book movies weren’t a staple of our modern cinematic landscape. When all cinemas were filled with were so called “serious” films competing for our dollars instead of CGI filled superhero fests loaded with big name actors and any number of spectacular storylines. […]
Surviving The Game Freemasons have for so long been the scourge of society that even in the golden years of the 80s and 90s, cinema would often feature villains who would serve as obvious fictional characters based off their kind. This winning formula would definitely lend itself to action movies, and one of the best […]