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‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Presents An Epic Ballet Of Absurdity And Violence

I hadn’t heard of Sam Peckinpah in 1988 when I saw Extreme Prejudice on HBO one night. I wasn’t even 10 and I remembered the climax as Nick Nolte as a Texas Ranger gets into a shoot-out with his old friend played by Powers Boothe who is now a drug kingpin south of the border.Continue reading “‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Presents An Epic Ballet Of Absurdity And Violence”

No Good Marketing For Disability Pride Month So It’s Mostly Overlooked

When it comes to LGBTQIA Pride Month or Black History Month, the stores can market it for their own gain. Clothing and apparel as well as other items can line the shelves throughout those months in hopes of being sold. But there’s really no way to market a disability. July is Disability Pride Month. OnContinue reading “No Good Marketing For Disability Pride Month So It’s Mostly Overlooked”

‘Anaconda’ Slithers Through The Waters Of Guilty Pleasures

A movie like Anaconda should have been a disaster. It should have been the type of bad movie a studio makes that bombs so spectacularly executives who greenlit it come to work the Monday after only to find their parking spots painted over. Yet, it didn’t. For a cheesy B-movie like movie released in theContinue reading “‘Anaconda’ Slithers Through The Waters Of Guilty Pleasures”

Offensive But Not Entirely Wrong

Another Fourth of July has come and gone. It seems that for the last few years, it’s become more and more less of a holiday to celebrate and one to wonder about. What exactly are we celebrating? I’m sure if you were to ask a lot of people, they wouldn’t know. People confuse the DeclarationContinue reading “Offensive But Not Entirely Wrong”

‘Muscles & Mayhem’ Carries A Lot Of Weight

The use of the word “Unauthorized” in the Netflix docuseries Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators leads me to wonder the legitimacy of the phrase. Because it seems they got a lot of authoritized people to speak in the documentary. Granted, they can’t interview Samuel Goldwin Jr. because he’s been deceased forContinue reading “‘Muscles & Mayhem’ Carries A Lot Of Weight”

Have A Safe And Fun July 4

I hope everyone has a fun and safe July 4 holiday if you celebrate. I’m dealing with something personal that’s come up in the last 24 hours and I just don’t have the abilities to focus on a topic today. Be safe, have fun and thanks for being a subscriber!

‘Women Talking’ And Not Much Else

Sarah Polley often makes movies a lot of other filmmakers wouldn’t make. Her directorial debut Away From Her was a completely different (and honest) movie that looked at Alzheimer’s and the effects on a married couple that didn’t have the Lifetime/Hallmark sentiments other movies did. That being said, Women Talking, for which she won anContinue reading “‘Women Talking’ And Not Much Else”

The Supreme Court Lost Their Damned Mind

From the reasoning behind the U.S. Supreme Court decisions, you don’t have to know that it’s mostly conservative and mostly consists of Boomers. The fact that they’re willing to change the laws based on two hypothetical situations that didn’t really happen is the typical Chicken-Little-Sky-Is-Falling mentality that has sprung up a lot in the lastContinue reading “The Supreme Court Lost Their Damned Mind”

Why ‘Hulk’ Failed And Still Succeeded

When Hulk hit theaters 20 years ago, audiences were excited. After several problems with superhero movies in the 1990s, it seemed Hollywood was finally learning how to make a movie following X-Men in 2000 and Spider-Man in 2002. Marvel hadn’t had too much luck with their characters on screen, i.e. Howard the Duck. And othersContinue reading “Why ‘Hulk’ Failed And Still Succeeded”

‘Interview With The Vampire’ An Allegory For Gay Awakening And Acceptance

Note: This focus will be on horror/thrillers that have featured the LGBTQIA community and/or have themes as June is Pride Month. In the 1970s, when Anne Rice was hired to write the screenplay based on her novel Interview with the Vampire, she was concerned about changing the main character, Louis, from a man to aContinue reading “‘Interview With The Vampire’ An Allegory For Gay Awakening And Acceptance”