Troublesomely Taken
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 […]
Revealing Robocop circa 1987
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 […]
Closing in On Capricorn One
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 […]
Defiantly Dredd
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 […]
Examining Excalibur
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. […]
