You can’t throw a dead hobbit out the window right now and not hit a comic book movie in the head.  We live in a geek renaissance of sorts that began way back in 1998 with Marvel’s first release, “Blade” and has continued… Continue reading

I know it’s late in the month, but a good horror movie can be watched any time of the year. My suggestion is on Christmas Eve, boils down the fake sickly sweet sentiments to tolerable portions.

Dawn of the Dead… Continue reading

 

I didn’t see the Green Lantern at the movies, mainly because funds were very tight, and there were a plethora of super hero movies out this year. So I did what I normally never do, I listened to the… Continue reading

Finally a well made film about a Christian… One that doesn’t insult the Christian.

 

“Only What You Take With You” 

-Yoda to Luke before entering the Darkside Cave on Dagobah-

 

It’s hard to remember exactly when I first saw “Star Wars”, before actually seeing it. I do remember in mid-summer 1977, my… Continue reading

 Hollywood seems to be stuck in the revival mode as icons from the 70’s and 80’s are being dusted off for one more chance at box-off gold. 2006’s “Rocky Balboa” and 2008’s “Rambo” scored big coin as audiences were curious… Continue reading

 

In the summer of sequels, prequels, remakes, reboots, rehashes, revivals, reappraise, and redo, I was afraid “X-Men: First Class” was a fluke. Instead, lightening hath struck twice! Without contradicting or insulting previous installments, “Rise of the Planet of the… Continue reading

 

 Forget everything you’ve ever seen on modern vampires, correction forget all that Ann Rice crap that took a compelling figure and “de-fanged” him by making him mopey, whiny, wispy, emo- tortured whussy. Ya know, like the singer of “Fall… Continue reading

 

 Originally written July 2005. 

Much like the prophecies that haunt the characters, this film has been in the making for decades long before Lucas took pen to paper to flesh out the details. It has been a long wait, but one… Continue reading

Here is the first part to the excellent analysis by Rob Ager. There are many thematic and production elements that I had never thought of before. It sheds a lot of light on the mystery of this still compelling almost… Continue reading