‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’ The Movie You Need To See To Believe

The one thing you can always say about a movie written by Shane Black is that he knows how to make an outrageous story believable and fun to watch. His friend and sometimes collaborator Fred Dekker said the Transylvania castle opening of The Monster Squad was written by Black as a full-blown siege with Dr.Continue reading “‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’ The Movie You Need To See To Believe”

RIP, Val Kilmer! You Were More Than Just A Wingman, Iceman

John Frankenheimer famously quipped, “Will Rogers never met Val Kilmer.” The late filmmaker and the recently deceased actor butted heads on the production of the 1996 movie The Island of Dr. Moreau that Frankenheimer immediately demanded Kilmer be taken off the set when he filmed his last scene. It was almost common issue with theContinue reading “RIP, Val Kilmer! You Were More Than Just A Wingman, Iceman”

‘The Penguin’ Soars High

The biggest problem with the ill-fated DC Extended Universe was that it tried so hard to do the same thing that the Marvel Cinematic Universe tried to do. But the MCU started out on a rocky start as well. Yes, The Avengers was a huge thing, but now more than a decade later, it feelsContinue reading “‘The Penguin’ Soars High”