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Kung Fu Panda 2: The Kaboom of Doom teaser trailer
One of my favorite films of 2008 was an animated film and it wasn’t from Pixar. I’m talking about the Dreamworks Animation release for the summer of the year that was awesome in its very awesomeness....
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6 Horror-Filled Trailers For Those That Were Left Behind
Apparently, the Rapture was scheduled for yesterday and I missed it. Now, I suppose there are a lot of reasons as to why I might have been left behind but quite frankly, I blame my first boyfriend....
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Film Review: Casino (dir by Martin Scorsese)
(Minor spoilers below) Casino, Martin Scorsese’s epic, Las Vegas-set film from 1995, is one of my favorite films of all time. It seems to show up on cable every other week and, whenever I see that...
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44 Days of Paranoia #30: Nixon (dir by Oliver Stone)
For our latest entry in the 44 Days of Paranoia, we take a look at Oliver Stone’s 1995 presidential biopic, Nixon. Nixon tells the life story of our 37th President, Richard Nixon. The only President...
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Back to School #59: The Virgin Suicides (dir by Sofia Coppola)
For the past three and a half weeks, I’ve been taking a chronological look at some of the best, worst, most memorable, and most forgettable teen and high school films ever made. We started with two...
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Shattered Politics #50: Once Upon A Time In America (dir by Sergio Leone)
Before I start this review of Sergio Leone’s 1984 gangster epic, Once Upon A Time In America, I want to issue two warnings. First off, this review is going to have spoilers. I’ve thought long and hard...
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Shattered Politics #92: White House Down (dir by Roland Emmerich)
To say that the 2012 film White House Down is stupid is probably unnecessary. After all, the film was directed by Roland Emmerich and Emmerich specializes in making stupid films. And, in many ways,...
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Embracing the Melodrama Part II #67: Split Image (dir by Ted Kotcheff)
Unlike Desperate Lives, the 1982 melodrama Split Image is available to be viewed on YouTube. In fact, you can watch it below and I suggest that you do so. It’s a pretty good film and, apparently,...
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Scenes That I Love: The Classroom Scene From Dario Argento’s Inferno
So, as I mentioned earlier, I was in the mood for some late night horror and I decided to rewatch Dario Argento’s Three Mothers trilogy. I started watching Suspiria at midnight and, after that, I...
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Insomnia File No. 14: Promise (dir by Glenn Jordan)
What’s an Insomnia File? You know how some times you just can’t get any sleep and, at about three in the morning, you’ll find yourself watching whatever you can find on cable? This feature is all about...
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The Films of Dario Argento: Inferno
I’ve been using this October’s horrorthon as an excuse to rewatch and review the films of Dario Argento! Today we take a look at one of Argento’s best and most underrated films, 1980’s Inferno! “There...
View ArticleA Movie A Day #338: Raid on Entebbe (1977, directed by Irvin Kershner)
On June 27th, 1976, four terrorists hijacked an Air France flight and diverted it to Entebbe Airport in Uganda. With the blessing of dictator Idi Amin and with the help of a deployment of Ugandan...
View ArticleEmbracing The Melodrama Part III #8: The Boost (dir by Harold Becker)
Seven days ago, we started embracing the melodrama with my review of No Down Payment, a look at lies and betrayal in suburbia. Today, we conclude things with 1988’s The Boost, a look at lies,...
View ArticleMusic Video of the Day: Take A Look At Me Now (Against All Odds) by Phil...
On the one hand, I know that the critics have never exactly embraced the songs of Phil Collins. I mean, there’s a reason why it’s such a brilliant joke that, in American Psycho, the vacuous wannabe...
View ArticleThe Hard Way (1991, directed by John Badham)
Lt. John Moss (James Woods) is a cop with a problem. A serial killer who calls himself the Party Crasher (Stephen Lang) is killing people all across New York and he has decided that he will be coming...
View ArticleThe Visitors (1972, directed by Elia Kazan)
Haunted by his experiences in Vietnam, Bill Schmidt (James Woods) lives in an isolated farmhouse with his girlfriend, Martha (Patricia Joyce), their young son, and Martha’s tyrannical father, Harry...
View ArticleAny Given Sunday (1999, directed by Oliver Stone)
With Any Given Sunday, Oliver Stone set out to make the ultimate football movie and he succeeded. Any Given Sunday is not just the story of aging coach Tony D’Amato (Al Pacino). It’s also the story of...
View ArticleCitizen Cohn (1992, directed by Frank Pierson)
The year is 1986 and the powerful attorney Roy Cohn (James Woods) is dying. The official story is that Cohn has liver cancer but the truth is that he’s dying of AIDS. As he lies in his hospital bed,...
View Article18 Days of Paranoia #12: Best Seller (dir by John Flynn)
The 1987 film, Best Seller, tells the story of two men, both equally capable of violence but with two very different moral codes. Dennis Meechum (Brian Dennehy) is a cop who also writes true crime. In...
View ArticleFast-Walking (1982, directed by James B. Harris)
Frank Miniver (James Woods) is the prison guard that everyone calls Fast-Walking. He’s involved in almost every vice that a man living in a small town in Oregon can be involved in. He takes bribes....
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