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Let me start off by acknowledging that this is my first viewing of The Raid 2. I watched it right after I watched The...
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Let me start off by acknowledging that this is my first viewing of The Raid 2. I watched it right after I watched The...
I know, I know, I am a baker’s dozen number of years late in watching this insane action film. So sue me. Better late...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have always been on the edge of my pop culture knowledge. I had friends who read the comics, loved the...
Kingdom of the Spiders is a fun thrill ride of a movie that doesn’t get enough credit. In this man vs. nature run amok...
You may have heard that The Marvels seems to have developed a poor reputation. In fact, word of mouth was against it even before...
John Woo’s latest brings to mind Norma Desmond’s immortal lines: “There once was a time in this business when I had the eyes of...
I had never seen this one before, so I had NO idea that this is where the phrase “ice ice baby” came from. Vanilla...
In 1972, my very first experience with a copy machine involved Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan. My buddy had a copy of Gabe Essoe’s book Tarzan...
Point Break is a cult classic: the film occupies a space that was uncommon in 1991, and unheard of now: the action-thriller with A-list...
Alice Walker’s book The Color Purple has become an important part of American literary culture. Its impact at the time of its release was...
“Science is real, monsters are not…” Fortunately for us, they are definitely real in this movie! Years before the kids from Stranger Things ventured...
The only way to watch Ridley Scott’s 2001 war epic, Black Hawk Down is to watch the extended cut. Only seven and a half...
We often say (to the point of cultural cliche) that “they couldn’t make this film today” but James Cameron’s love letter to the spy...
The Guns of Navarone is an incredible movie about camaraderie, courage, and determination. It is also one of my father’s favorite films. He showed...
One of the best sequels ever made, James Cameron’s Aliens instinctively knows exactly which aspects of Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic Alien to embellish and...
Face/Off is an important moment in the Hollywood stage of action master John Woo’s career because it represents the only time that Woo was...
Long before Hollywood regularly mined the toy aisle for movie ideas, Jon Landis (The Blues Brothers) and Jonathan Lynn (My Cousin Vinny) conceived the...
WandaVision is basically four shows in one. There’s the fun one that goes meta on sitcom visions of family life across the decades. There’s...
Jack L Warner: The Last Film Mogul is a documentary following the life and career of Jack L. Warner, one of the founding owners...
American Graffiti is one of my favorite films of all time made by one of my most favorite filmmakers of all time. It is...
The Abyss was James Cameron’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind: a non-traditional passion project dealing with weightier science-fiction themes than normal for a...
A woman’s husband commits suicide. When faced with the financial realities he has been hiding from her, she turns to the cultivation of an...
James Cameron gave two speeches on the night that Titanic won eleven Academy Awards. The first one for Best Director began with his declaration...
My big Christmas movie this season was 2003’s Love Actually. Surprisingly, especially considering I’m an Anglophile from way back and this film stars...