I remember a moment from my teenage years in which I had to excuse myself to the restroom as I was seeing a movie at the movie theater in the town I grew up in northwest Georgia. There I was washing my hands as some younger kid came in. I was in high school asContinue reading “The Day Tom Cruise Went Nucking Futs”
Category Archives: Movie Flashback
How ‘Popcorn’ Gave Horror Viewers A Taste Of Metafiction
By the time the 1980s ended, the horror genre was practically on every film critic’s shitlist. After a decade of the slasher genre with the Halloween, Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street movies along with dozens of knock-offs, the 1990s started with a clean slate. If you changed the name of the subgenre,Continue reading “How ‘Popcorn’ Gave Horror Viewers A Taste Of Metafiction”
‘Black Hole’ Sucks All Excitement Out Of Disney Sci-Fi Movie
Sci-fi space movies were nothing new when Star Wars became a huge hit in 1977. But, every major studio and production company pulled out all the stops with the knock-offs. Roger Corman did Battle Beyond the Stars. On TV, we had Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica. Even Mork & Mindy came about because of StarContinue reading “‘Black Hole’ Sucks All Excitement Out Of Disney Sci-Fi Movie”
‘No Way Home’ Finds Right Path For Spider-Man Franchise
I’ve always loved Spider-Man. That being said, his transition to the big screen has been a rocky road over the last several decades. During the 1980s. the defunct Cannon Group had held the rights to the comic but the Israeli-producers of Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus initially thought it was a horror movie about aContinue reading “‘No Way Home’ Finds Right Path For Spider-Man Franchise”
There Are No Small Roles And No Small Actors
Mike Hagerty often portrayed blue-collar people mainly because he looked like a blue-collar type of guy. With that burly build, somewhat unkept curly brown hair and brostache, he looked like he was about to say “Da Bears.” On April 29, he passed away at the age of 67. Hagerty was from Chicago and attended theContinue reading “There Are No Small Roles And No Small Actors”
Why People Unjustly (And Legitimately) Hate ‘The Last Jedi’
With it being May 4, aka May the Fourth be with you, I’d thought I’d examine one of the most notoriously reviled entries in the Star Wars franchise. No, not The Star Wars Holiday Special. I’m talking about The Last Jedi, the eighth episode in the Skywalker saga. The Last Jedi has become the epitomeContinue reading “Why People Unjustly (And Legitimately) Hate ‘The Last Jedi’”
‘Friday The 13th Part 2’ Turns 41 Giving Us Iconic Jason Vorhees
The original Friday the 13th, released in 1980, was really nothing more than a cash grab to piggyback off the success of Halloween. And even though critics savaged it, times have changed and it’s more praised now. And Friday the 13th Part 2 wasn’t much different and citics were just as bad. But times haveContinue reading “‘Friday The 13th Part 2’ Turns 41 Giving Us Iconic Jason Vorhees”
Movies In Which The Protagonists Are Really The Villains
Everyone loves to play the bad guy, but a lot of movies have turned the protagonists, the ones we’re supposed to sympathize with into the villains without us knowing it. I’m not talking about clever movies like Looper or movies that tricked us into believing Dwayne Johnson/The Rock was the good guy in Doom whenContinue reading “Movies In Which The Protagonists Are Really The Villains”
Why The MCU Tiptoes Around The True Horrors Of The Snap/Blip
It’s no surprise Avengers: Endgame was released in 2019, approximately 50 years after the moon landing. Because just like space exploration, the MCU has been trying to keep itself fresh thanks to a worldwide pandemic and whatever Eternals was supposed to be. Flashing back to 2018 when Avengers: Infinity War opened, it all ended withContinue reading “Why The MCU Tiptoes Around The True Horrors Of The Snap/Blip”
‘Deep Rising’ Gives Us B-Movie Sea Monster Fun
Flashback for one moment to the Winter of 1998 and there is a movie in theaters about a huge cruise ship on its maiden voyage suffering a disaster that kills the majority of its crew and passengers. If you’re thinking of Titanic, James Cameron’s Oscar-winning epic, well, you’re wrong. But good guess. No, I’m talkingContinue reading “‘Deep Rising’ Gives Us B-Movie Sea Monster Fun”
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