Category: Movies
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Enter The Dragon (1973)
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Read more: Enter The Dragon (1973)Every man fantasizes about having Bruce Lee inside of him. Hmm, call me a cynic, but I sense this simple statement already being misconstrued. Let me be a bit clearer. I don’t mean we feverishly dream of being bummed by the little Asian poppet. I mean we’re all in love with the idea of a…
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Phantoms (1998)
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Read more: Phantoms (1998)Phantoms is awful, in that special way movies like Lawrence Kasdan and William Goldman’s Stephen King adaptation Dreamcatcher are awful. Author and screenwriter Dean Koontz is often considered the poor man’s King (perhaps unfairly, as his novel Intensity is one of the best thrillers of the 1990s), so it is fitting that Phantoms should have…
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Monkey Shines (1988)
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Read more: Monkey Shines (1988)George A. Romero’s Monkey Shines is the story of Allan Mann (Jason Beghe), an athlete who is struck down by a semi-truck at the start of the movie, rendering him quadriplegic. He is forced to use one of those wheelchairs operated by blowing into a straw in order to get around, and after he hits…
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Top Science Movies And Documentaries For Students
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Read more: Top Science Movies And Documentaries For StudentsThe combination of science and cinematography is amazing. It allows people to relive the past, see the future, fly to the edge of the universe, and dive into the deepest cleft in the ocean for a while. Furthermore, such films significantly broaden people’s knowledge and pique students’ interest in studying. Which films should you watch…
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Deep Blue Sea (1999)
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Read more: Deep Blue Sea (1999)Deep Blue Sea, like the slasher movies it emulates by way of movies like Alien and Predator, is less a compelling narrative than it is a sort of delivery system for gruesome death scenes. And that’s fine. When a movie realizes its ambition, however high or low that ambition may be, it succeeds. It is…
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Quills (2000)
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Read more: Quills (2000)“Why should I love God? He strung up his only son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he’d do to me.” –The Marquis de Sade I guess that it is pretty obvious by now that I rarely review bad movies (EDITOR’S NOTE: That’s a lie) or even movies that I don’t…
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Venom: Let There Be Carnage
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Read more: Venom: Let There Be CarnageIn order to understand how low my expectations were for Venom: Let There Be Carnage, think about some of the movies that have come out this year that should have been entertaining, but absolutely crapped the bed. Without Remorse, Mortal Combat, F9, and Snake Eyes were terrible and that is coming right on the heels…
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Carter v. Shand: Battle of the British Gangsters
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Read more: Carter v. Shand: Battle of the British GangstersThere are many people who like to grapple with the Big Questions, such as whether we’re alone in the universe, what happens after death and what celeb has the best tits. Luckily I’m in a position to answer the last one in that God has the best tits because (a he’s Perfection so it stands…
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No Time to Die
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Read more: No Time to Die“No Time to Die” – The end of an era It has been six long, long years since the last James Bond film (Spectre) graced us with its presence. In fact, those years were so long that I forgot that I created a review format for James Bond films. This is a pleasant surprise for…
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Anything Else
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Read more: Anything ElseThere is something comforting about Woody Allen’s universe, a place where, despite the neurotic behavior and stifling narcissism, people…