The Mission: Impossible franchise seemed to running on empty following the lackluster and very confusing third movie, which was the first movie J.J. Abrams directed. In my opinion, this is the weakest mostly because I feel it was made as a conclusion rather than just a regular entry. Also, casting Philip Seymour Hoffman as theContinue reading “‘Dead Reckoning’ Shows Mission: Impossible Franchise Still Much Alive”
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‘Addams Family Values’ Is A Delightful Treat For Thanksgiving Leftovers
Sometimes sequels are better made but don’t get the recogntion they deserve until many years later. A movie like Addams Family Values is a wonderful improvement over the original The Addams Family movie mainly because it has a darker sense of humor in how it handles the Addams in a modern-day world where they areContinue reading “‘Addams Family Values’ Is A Delightful Treat For Thanksgiving Leftovers”
‘Chopping Mall’ Makes A Killing For Black Friday
Even though the movie had already been shown in test markets by the time Short Circuit hit theaters in the spring of 1986, Chopping Mall is the answer to what would happen if they took the Slasher/Dead Teenagers genres and mashed them up with murdering robots. What if Johnny Five blew people’s heads off asContinue reading “‘Chopping Mall’ Makes A Killing For Black Friday”
‘Blue Beetle’ The Diamond In The Rough Of The Failed DCEU
Blue Beetle seems to be the DCEU answer to something like Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings or the first Ant-Man. Take a comic book character that doesn’t get a lot of attention and churn out a nice superhero movie that is fun and leaves you entertained. It’s nowhere near the level ofContinue reading “‘Blue Beetle’ The Diamond In The Rough Of The Failed DCEU”
‘Barbie’ Feels Too Packaged
When I first heard they were making a movie based on Barbie, I felt it would bomb. Then, I heard that Greta Gerwig was directing co-writing along with her partner (and savior from a lifetime of character actor jobs as the best friend of the protagonist in big-budget movies) Noah Baumbach. Gerwig has never beenContinue reading “‘Barbie’ Feels Too Packaged”
‘Kalifornia’ Is A Killer
A movie like Kalifornia pretty much breaks people down in two categories. On one side, you have the people who have a moral and ethical code that prevents them from doing things that might harm people. Then, you have people who will just do something no matter who it harms. The protagonist, Brian Kessler (DavidContinue reading “‘Kalifornia’ Is A Killer”
Don’t Bother With ‘About My Father’
In 1988, Robert DeNiro did his first real comedy Midnight Run. There was something funny about the way he threatened on a phone to brutally murder Charles Grodin’s character who was standing shocked right next to him and then just give a dismissive shake of the head. It was all in the delivery. DeNiro andContinue reading “Don’t Bother With ‘About My Father’”
‘No Hard Feelings’ Keeps It Up
There’s a rumor in Hollywood that when Howard Hawks contacted Marion Morrison, aka John Wayne, about the movie Rio Lobo he was prepping, Wayne agreed to it but joked he wanted to play the town drunk this time. He had done the same movie twice with Rio Bravo and El Dorado. Some actors get soContinue reading “‘No Hard Feelings’ Keeps It Up”
‘Soylent Green’ Still Hard To Swallow
I’ve often been fascinated by the science-fiction movies of the 1970s. They often had a bleakness that very few other sci-fi/horror movies from any other era would’ve alienated so many viewers they’d be forgotten. Even Alien itself with its somewhat heroic ending still ends on a downer as Ellen Ripley, lone survivor is left strandedContinue reading “‘Soylent Green’ Still Hard To Swallow”
‘A Million Miles Away’ But Still Just Shy Of A Great Biopic Movie
There’s a great story hidden beneath the saccharine feel of A Million Miles Away. There’s a lot of good scenes but they all don’t add up correctly. Every scene in the movie can be seen a million miles away coming. It’s not a totally bad movie. Yet that doesn’t mean I don’t think you’d likeContinue reading “‘A Million Miles Away’ But Still Just Shy Of A Great Biopic Movie”
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