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. […]
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street In Tim Burton’s adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s musical, there is certainly a lot to savor here: The costumes, set designs, cinematography, and overall LOOK and feel of the piece are top-notch, and then there is Johnny Depp’s performance as the title character. Having reportedly never sang publicly […]
Syriana Traffic screenwriter Stephen Gaghan’s directorial debut turns out to be a slow, horribly paced, extended diatribe against capitalism, American Neo-conservatives, and big oil corporations (which even left-wing pariah Bill O’Reilly has taken a stand against in recent years) in general. I shouldn’t have been surprised to see Steven Soderbergh’s name listed as a producer, […]
Sympathy For The Devil Revolutionary politics, whether it be The Bolsheviks in the 1910s or the more recent “Q” movement, have always differed in terms of exactly “what they want” but the goals have always been the same: to overthrow the current governmental system to install what they feel is a “better way”. In no […]
Take The Lead Basically a version of Stand And Deliver for the Dancing With The Stars crowd, this film can also be shown as what happens with Antonio Banderas when he winds up cast in a role that is perfect for him. As the real-life Pierre Dulaine, an upper-class dance teacher who volunteers to teach […]
Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight Starting in 1989, the Tales From The Crypt series on HBO was one of the greatest breakthrough TV series in cable history, smashing the boundaries imposed by the alphabet soup networks to give us something that they never could: A TV horror anthology based upon the old, controversial EC […]