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”
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‘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”
‘American Dream’ A Nightmare Of Corporate Greed, Labor Union Mistakes
The tagline on one of the movie posters of American Dream is “The film that corporate America doesn’t want you to see.” I think that’s comical. Because after sitting through the roughly 100 minutes of this documentary, you will probably also conclude that labor unions don’t want you to see it either. That might explainContinue reading “‘American Dream’ A Nightmare Of Corporate Greed, Labor Union Mistakes”
‘True Romance’ Still So Cool At 30
Flashback to the fall movie season of 1993 and no one was anticipating True Romance to be a huge movie. And that’s why it was a box-office failure, because no one was expecting it to be a huge movie. Yet, its success and legacy lives on over the years. Its casting is one for theContinue reading “‘True Romance’ Still So Cool At 30”
‘Club Dread’ Offers No Frills, Some Thrills But Lacks Cool Chills
When Super Troopers opened in the middle of February of 2002, America was still reeling from the aftermath of 9/11 and the impending threat of a war was looming. No one had anticipated that an obscure comedy troupe that had formed at Colgate University in the late 1980s was going to give us the laughsContinue reading “‘Club Dread’ Offers No Frills, Some Thrills But Lacks Cool Chills”
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