With the recent passing of Piper Laurie and the upcoming release of the long-awaited and critically acclaimed Killers of the Flower Moon, I’d thought I’d look back at The Color of Money released on this day. Martin Scorsese directed this movie back in the mid-1980s when he was going through a down period. As IContinue reading “How ‘The Color Of Money’ And ‘Collateral’ Are In The Same Universe”
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How Piper Laurie Gave Horror Movies One Of Its Greatest Villains
By the time, Piper Laurie accepted the role of Margaret White in Brian DePalma’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie, she hadn’t appeared in a movie for almost 15 years since her Oscar-nominated performance in The Hustler. She had been doing TV work up until the mid-1960s before she took time off for about a decade.Continue reading “How Piper Laurie Gave Horror Movies One Of Its Greatest Villains”
‘Jason Live’ Gives Franchise Its Final Decent Sequel Before It Goes To Hell
Some things just don’t work out the way filmmakers intend. You need only to look at the Halloween or Terminator franchises to wonder what went wrong and what were they thinking when they greenlit the movie. The original Friday the 13th was a surprise hit piggy-backing (and some might say ripping off) the success ofContinue reading “‘Jason Live’ Gives Franchise Its Final Decent Sequel Before It Goes To Hell”
What People Get Wrong About ‘Demolition Man’ As It Turns 30
By the early 1990s, Sylvester Stallone’s career had hit the skids. Following a string of less than stellar action movies like Rambo III, Lock-Up and the problematic Tango & Cash, he had moved over into comedy with the farcical Oscar and the terrible Stop or My Mom Will Shoot! So, when he returned to formContinue reading “What People Get Wrong About ‘Demolition Man’ As It Turns 30”
‘Arachnophobia’ Spins A Web Of Chills, Thrills And Funny Feels
What is it about spiders that scare some of us? Is it those eight hairy legs or the way they have fangs that you can see on some species? Or it could be the way they wrap their prey up in their webs to suck their blood. Even in Charlotte’s Web, there was something sinisterContinue reading “‘Arachnophobia’ Spins A Web Of Chills, Thrills And Funny Feels”
Did ‘Taxi Driver’ Foretell The Future Or Just Spotlight A Silent Beast?
Paul Schrader, who wrote the script for Taxi Driver, said after the movie was released in 1976, he was approached by a random stranger who he had never seen before. Somehow this man found out who he was and that he had written the movie. Schrader said the man was hostile wanting to know howContinue reading “Did ‘Taxi Driver’ Foretell The Future Or Just Spotlight A Silent Beast?”
‘Sleepy Hollow’ Scares Up Good Tale Of Revenge And Greed From Tim Burton
I was never a fan of the Harry Potter movies. Therefore, I can’t say much about the work of Sir Michael Gambon, who recently passed, in those movie. No, I knew him from movies like The Insider where he played Thomas Sandefur, the cutthroat head of tobacco company Brown & Williamson. Or there was hisContinue reading “‘Sleepy Hollow’ Scares Up Good Tale Of Revenge And Greed From Tim Burton”
‘THIR13EN Ghosts’ Deserves A 2nd Look
Last month, Dark Castle Entertainment announced that a series is in the planning stages for the 2001 movie THIR13EN Ghosts, or Thirteen Ghosts and 13 Ghosts, as it’s also known. The movie was a remake of the 1960 William Castle orgin, speerheaded by the production company that was formed by Joel Silver, Robert Zemeckis andContinue reading “‘THIR13EN Ghosts’ Deserves A 2nd Look”
‘Se7en’ Is A Commentary On Human Cruelty, Apathy And Vengeance
A movie like Se7en, or just Seven as it’s sometimes shown, is quite possibly one of the most profound, unusually disturbing but provocative movies Hollywood has churned out in his history. The fact that it contains a rising heartthrob like Brad Pitt alongside a revered actor like Morgan Freeman and is so dark and unsettlingContinue reading “‘Se7en’ Is A Commentary On Human Cruelty, Apathy And Vengeance”
‘Ghost Ship’ Gets Lost In Sea Of Cliches
Ghost Ship is one of those movies you’d find yourself staying up late to watch in the early 2000s because you had some bad indigestion from supper or you slept too late on a weekend morning and worried about the week ahead at work. It’s starts off wonderful with a B-movie horror style and thenContinue reading “‘Ghost Ship’ Gets Lost In Sea Of Cliches”
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