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”
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‘Moving On’ Presents A Good Showcase For Legendary Actresses
One of the first movies I remember watch was 9 to 5 released in 1980 featuring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. I remember mostly the scene where Tomlin’s character thinks she has poisoned her boss played by Dabney Coleman and tries to sneak what she thinks is his body out of a hospital. The absurdityContinue reading “‘Moving On’ Presents A Good Showcase For Legendary Actresses”
‘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”
What’s In A Review Anyway?
There’s a story that when they were putting together the segments of what would become Amazon Women on the Moon, producer Robert K. Weiss tried in vain to release the movie under the title “The Greatest Movie Ever.” The gag, he said was they could use the title in any reviews by famous credits toContinue reading “What’s In A Review Anyway?”
‘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”
‘Hypnotic’ Feels Like A Hybrid Of Better Sci-Fi Existential Thrillers
From the start of Hypnotic, something just feels off. Why in the sam hill are Robert Rodriguez and Ben Affleck in a movie that seems like a typical police procedural? And then it’s revealed that the story is really about those who have powers to put people under hypnosis to make them do things suchContinue reading “‘Hypnotic’ Feels Like A Hybrid Of Better Sci-Fi Existential Thrillers”
Guy Ritchie’s ‘Fortune’ Experiences ‘Operation’al Exhaustion
By now, you know what to expect when you’re seeing a Guy Ritchie movie. He seems to have a technique that is basically putting a lot of stuff in your face with a lot of British blokes who drop the F-bomb as if it’s punctuation. The trend catapulted him in the late 1990s/early 2000s whenContinue reading “Guy Ritchie’s ‘Fortune’ Experiences ‘Operation’al Exhaustion”
The Strange Case Of ‘The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen’
A movie like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen could have been the best movie of the year or the 2000s. It looked like a whole bunch of fun as a concept. Based on the graphic novels by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill, it mainly was about public domain characters like Allan Quartermain, Captain Nemo, Dr.Continue reading “The Strange Case Of ‘The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen’”
‘Tales From The Hood’ A Maddening Mixture Of Mischief And Macabre
A movie like Tales from the Hood is mostly a horror flick. But just like Alfred Hitchcock, director Rusty Cundieff throws in enough humor and mischief along with the macabre to remind us that it’s still a movie and we need to relax. The movie poster features a skull wearing sunglasses and a gold tooth.Continue reading “‘Tales From The Hood’ A Maddening Mixture Of Mischief And Macabre”
An Easy Pass For ‘Vacation Friends 2’
Adam Sandler has been criticized for choosing to make movies that are in major travel destinations so he can enjoy his days off from filming seeing the sights. It started with 50 First Dates filmed in Hawai’i and Blended was filmed in South Africa and The Do-Over was filmed in the Savannah area. I mean,Continue reading “An Easy Pass For ‘Vacation Friends 2’”
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