A year has passed since David Gordon Green completed his Halloween trilogy, which began with 2018’s Halloween and culminated with 2021’s Halloween Kills and 2022’s Halloween Ends. The last time I watched the series was last October, and I was eager to give it another go to see if my opinion might have changed after … Read more
We take a look back at the infamous 1985 adaptation of Red Sonja starring Brigitte Nielsen and Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the early eighties, Arnold Schwarzenegger had become a star through his role in Conan the Barbarian. Following a critically maligned but successful sequel, Conan the Destroyer, Schwarzenegger sought to move into more contemporary roles. His … Read more
While Steven Seagal has become a punch-line in recent years, his star-making debut, Above the Law, is a solid action flick. Warner Bros – circa 1986. A bunch of powerful, suit-wearing studio execs are summoned to a studio lunch like no other. They’re set to observe an Aikido demonstration by a superstar trainer named Steven … Read more
One of the most astounding scenes in the movie comes when a seemingly unremarkable, shy nurse enters a courtroom. The impact of this scene is such that when comparing it to the very similar moment in “A Few Good Men” when the great Jack Nicholson (in a monumental role that terrifies everybody in his wake) … Read more
We look back at Robert Zemeckis’s 1992 cult classic, Death Becomes Her, starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis. If I had asked you to name a film from the early 1990s that featured groundbreaking visuals effects that changed the landscape of cinema, you probably answer with Jurassic Park. But what if I told … Read more
People hate Zack Snyder’s man of steel, and a decade later, I can’t figure out why the movie didn’t register with audiences more. After making a splash during its opening weekend, Man of Steel dropped like a rock at the box office and ended its run with a good, but not great, $600 million, resulting … Read more
Harrison Ford has played Indiana Jones for more than 40 years, establishing the archeologist as a legendary hero in the process. Often forgotten in his history portraying the character is a brief television appearance in 1993. After the initial Indiana Jones trilogy – Raiders of the Lost Ark (nineteen eighty one), Indiana Jones and the … Read more
We take a look back at Rain Man, one of the biggest early hits of Tom Cruise’s career and an Oscar winner for Dustin Hoffman. Many people think Tom Cruise dancing around in his underwear to Bob Seger in Risky Business is his most iconic scene. To others, it’s him saying he feels the need … Read more
What can be said about Star Wars: A New Hope that hasn’t been said before? How many different times can it be stated how George Lucas’ film changed pop culture, the movie business, most of our lives, the whole works? It’s hard to think of a movie – and the franchise it spawned – that’s been picked … Read more