I’m trying to change up the content on my blog but there are a few things recently that have pissed me off. First off is how people are trying to make Sydney Sweeney out to be a white supremacist just because people think there’s more meaning to an American Eagle advertisement she did earlier this year. It’s a play on how “genes” andContinue reading “Sydney Sweeney Not Playing Into Their Reindeer Games And Good For Her”
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‘Return To Oz’ Presented A Wickedly Different View 40 Years Ago
By the mid-1980s, top brass at Disney was faced with a dilemma. Do they continue to make just family movies or do they branch out and do what all the other movie studios have done and embraced the change that has been happening since the late 1960s? It didn’t help matters that many of their top animators left with Don Bluth who went on toContinue reading “‘Return To Oz’ Presented A Wickedly Different View 40 Years Ago”
‘Good Boy’ Is A Good Movie
A movie like Good Boy asks you to put yourself in the mind of a dog. And that might be why so many people haven’t and won’t like the movie. The buzz around the movie is that it’s told from the perspective of Indy, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever. When the movie begins, Indy is just resting in an apartment with his humanContinue reading “‘Good Boy’ Is A Good Movie”
‘The Naked Gun’ Hits The Target
Parody movies haven’t been too popular for well over a decade. And you can thank the horrible filmmaking duo of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer for that. When Scary Movie became a big hit during the summer of 2000, they had the clout as the co-writers of a hit movie. Except there was one problem. They were co-writers in credit only. According to Marlon Wayans, who co-starredContinue reading “‘The Naked Gun’ Hits The Target”
‘Wild At Heart’ A Love Story Set On A Hellish Journey Into Darkness
When Diane Ladd was approached by David Lynch to play Marietta, an antagonistic character in the 1990 movie Wild at Heart, she said Lynch wanted her to be a hot momma. Ladd was in her mid-50s at the time and women that age and at that time weren’t considered “hot.” Yet, it became one of the three roles LaddContinue reading “‘Wild At Heart’ A Love Story Set On A Hellish Journey Into Darkness”
‘Weapons’ Is A Total Misfire
A movie like Weapons really gets under my skin early on and I’m disappointed with the outcome. I give writer/director Zach Cregger credit for filming most of the movie in the sunny atmosphere of small-town Pennsylvania, even though it was filmed outside of the Atlanta area. The blue skies and green-grass yards seem to be a good contrast to the terror that is lurking. The sun’sContinue reading “‘Weapons’ Is A Total Misfire”
‘Shutter Island’ Leaves You To Wonder What Is Real And What Isn’t
With the recent documentary series Mr. Scorsese about the life and work of Martin Scorsese, he says his collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio has been a way he can work to do more expensive projects. It’s been one of the most unusual collaborations as the director and former teen idol turned Oscar winner have a good track record. DiCaprio picks his projectsContinue reading “‘Shutter Island’ Leaves You To Wonder What Is Real And What Isn’t”
‘Halloween’ Thorne Trilogy Is More Of A Trick Than A Treat
I had heard about the Halloween movies but never really got into them until Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers came out. We watched it at my aunt and cousins house who themselves might have lived in a haunted house out in the country. The end of a young Danielle Harris as Jamie LloydContinue reading “‘Halloween’ Thorne Trilogy Is More Of A Trick Than A Treat”
You Will Like ‘John Candy: I Like Me’
John Candy would’ve been 75 this Halloween if he hadn’t passed away in 1994 at 43. In death, Candy achieved that type of stardom and legacy that most actors and celebrities want but rarely achieve when they’re alive. During the last few years he was alive, Candy appeared in a lot of movies, either inContinue reading “You Will Like ‘John Candy: I Like Me’”
‘The Devil’s Advocate’ Is About The Last Temptation Of Keanu
SPOILER WARNING!! This post contains major plot points and revelations. When I first saw The Devil’s Advocate when it hit video in the spring of 1998, I really didn’t like the ending. The basic premise of the movie is Keanu Reeves plays Kevin Lomax, a young hot-shot lawyer from Gainesville, Fla. who is plucked byContinue reading “‘The Devil’s Advocate’ Is About The Last Temptation Of Keanu”
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