As I was about to head home after a rather long day, I overheard my co-workers Arthur and Gabe talking about what was showing in theaters. When the topic shifted to fight scenes, it touched upon the films John Wick with Keanu Reeves and Taken starring Liam Neeson. While the film came out back in 2008, I admit to never […]
Almost all movies a music, especially the popular ones, will provide a snapshot of the time it was created. Take the case of Robocop. When it was first revealed in 1987, it tackled people’s concerns about worsening crime. When I first saw this film when it was released in the late 1980s and found it to be hilariously funny. Being […]
Some conspiracy theorists still consider the moon landing by the United States on September 13, 1959 to be fake. They hasten to add that the country actually filmed it on a stage in some unknown location. One film back in 1977, entitled Capricorn One, dealt with such a topic. However, instead of a moon landing, it tackled a fake trip […]
While I love the current string of comic book hero movies, the one thing I despise about them is that the actors and actresses spend so much time without masks and costumes. More often than not, this leads me to conclude that these big-budgeted movies are more like vanity projects meant to showcase the actors and actresses instead of their […]
There are very few films that I disliked when I watched them for the first few times, only to appreciate them recently. One of them is Blade Runner circa 1982 and the other is Excalibur circa 1981. As a young man, I both movies to be little too weird, deep, and dark, especially against the backdrop of happier 80s movies. […]
When Blade Runner came out way back in 1982 it didn’t make as much as people hoped. It being too far ahead of its time, especially with a dystopian setting, just didn’t fit in with the feel-good 80s. In addition to this, the pace of the movie was quite slow and it involved quite a bit of dialogue that required […]
I can’t help but agree with some of our other writers that the casting of Daniel Craig as James Bond and the removal of his gadgets have made the longest running franchise look more like Jason Bourne than James Bond. No offense, but before Daniel Craig took over, my favorite 007 movies were The Spy Who Loved Me with Roger […]
Resurrection moved me to start writing this, the drama is that good, it’s that thought provoking. Resurrection is the number one scripted drama in the US, set in Arcadia, Missouri but a boy from there thought to have died thirty-two years ago, wakes up in the present at a rice field in China at the same young age of his […]
Some actors just cannot move away from their breakout movies. Leonardo DiCaprio is one of many stars who can’t seem to go beyond his role in Titanic. People still remember him as the young Jack Dawson who made an equally young Kate Winslet feel like she was flying. Unfortunately, I will be the first to say that I still carry […]
Man! The things I have to do for this website! Just in case you’re wondering what’s going on, I just finished watching Apocalypse Now. And right after it ended, I suddenly remembered why I missed it when it first came out. Apart from being too young, I painfully recall that I refused to watch it on video tape because it […]
