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You’ll notice that with most of my reviews, I like to start with a confession about myself. For this one, I must admit that I am insanely jealous of Ernest Cline. He is the author of “Ready Player One”, the novel that the new movie is adapted from. Mister Cline wrote a story in which […]
While movies are my main obsession and preferred form of entertainment, I also like to enjoy Japanese animation, or as it’s commonly known as, anime. I’m more of a casual fan, not a true otaku (slang for someone who is a “die hard fan of anime”, or some other hobby), and I would also consider […]
To this very day, I believe that 1995’s “Mortal Kombat” is the best movie adapted from a video game. I’m not saying the movie is a masterpiece of cinema, I’m just saying that when it comes to video game movies, it’s the best one made thus far. It’s not for a lack of trying, but […]
Smart science fiction is a hard sell, and this movie is proof. The title is the first clue. “Annihilation” sounds more like something Roland Emmerich would make, rather than someone who is trying to become the next Stanley Kubrick. “The Shimmer”, or “Enter The Shimmer” would have been better; it has a certain ring to […]
I must confess that Guillermo del Toro is among my Top 5 Directors of all time. He’s my favorite example of a creative mind who is too creative for his own good. His ideas are too big for the limited imagination of modern Hollywood. Had he been around during the 1980s, when studios were willing […]
Ten years ago, JJ Abrams produced a found footage movie called “Cloverfield”. Frankly, I was not a fan. Sure, the concept was unique, the creature design for the monster was great, and the cast was made up of top notch up and comers. That being said, it was a JJ Abrams production, and JJ loves, […]
Let’s face it, Hollywood is creatively bankrupt. As much as I love movies, the people in charge of making said movies only want “sure things”, which means anything remotely original in concept scares them. As a result, nearly half of everything in your local theater is a sequel, remake, reboot, adaptation, and every other kind […]
Much like the wrestling move, The RKO, the success of Netflix has come out of nowhere. The company was once a mail-in, DVD rental service who tried to go against the then juggernaut of home entertainment that was Blockbuster Video. Then 2007 came, and Netflix shifted over to this new medium called online streaming. Fast […]
We’re going to do something a little different here, faithful readers. I feel that I can’t express what I like and dislike about this movie without giving away spoilers. So, for the first time in one of my reviews, I’m going to spoil major plot points to the movie! Now, for those of you who […]
There’s a number of metaphors that I could come up to summarize the situation that “Justice League” was in before it was released in theaters. My favorite would be the high school student who shows up to the prom long after the party is over, and only the janitors are there, cleaning up the leftover […]
I imagine that writer/director Edgar Wright got the idea for his new movie, “Baby Driver”, after watching a marathon of “Fast and Furious” movies, and thinking to himself “Gee, what if those movies were actually good for once? Like what if instead of being one mindless and unrealistic stunt after another, there was a plot […]
I have had always had a fascination with the cop sub-genre. The idea of cops taking on the bad guys, keeping the streets safe for common folk like me always seemed cool. Not to mention the fact that some of the greatest action and crime films of all time feature police officers as the main […]
I would consider it safe to say that the marketing for “Atomic Blonde” has been a tad misleading. Based on the advertising, we’ve been led to believe that “Atomic Blonde” was “John Wick, minus the d*ck”, as one critic claimed. In truth, I found the movie was more like “Jason Bourne, but a woman”. Much […]
Disney has had some huge animated hits in recent years with movies like Frozen, Wreck it Ralph and Moana. However, it’s been eight years since The Princess and the Frog, the most recent movie in the Disney Classics collection to use traditional hand-drawn animation, and the first since 2005’s poorly received Home on the Range. Frozen and Moana have kept up the tradition of animated […]
Here we are, 15 years after the very first major motion picture to feature Spider-Man, and now we’re on our sixth. Well, six and a half, if you count his appearance in “Captain America: Civil War”. I’m not complaining though, because Spider-Man is my #1 favorite superhero of all-time. Say what you will about him, […]
1. Totally bankrupt in the originality department. The prequels did have superficial parallels to the original movies, but, in addition to that, TFA also lifts numerous VERY SPECIFIC plot points from the OT (mostly ANH). So far, I’ve counted a whopping 37 of these parallels/ripped-off plot points. And the weaponry/vehicles are all just slightly modified […]
It took 76 years, but Wonder Woman, arguably the most famous female comic book character of all time, has finally been given her own major motion picture. Invented back in 1941 by William Moulton Marston, and after decades of start and stop productions with such names as Ivan Reitman and Joss Whedon working behind the […]
I want to preface this article with the following: I am not a film critic, an avid comic book fan, nor an expert in any way, shape, or form in the process of scripting and shooting films. I’m just some nerd that happens to enjoy the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) films and I have an […]
Some may disagree but I firmly believe that truth CAN sometimes be more entertaining than fiction and there are a LOT of damn good true story movies which think prove this. Having said that, there are still many true stories that have yet to get adaptions to the big screen. Here are ten that I […]
I must confess, I have an an addiction. I am, and have been since childhood, a cinephile. Movies have always been a part of my life. From spending Saturday nights with my family as we rented and watched a new movie from Blockbuster Video, to seeing the latest big event flick at […]