It was the horror movie fanboy’s wet dream: Freddy Krueger, the child-killing maniac with a twisted sense of humor who hunted and killed you in your dreams vs. Jason Voorhees, Crystal Lake’s lumbering stalker who, despite your best efforts to run, was always waiting for you around that corner with some sort of implement to …
What is the purpose of a thriller? What is the audience seeking when it goes to see one of these movies? It is a modern day version of the Romans throwing people to the lions? Is it modern day blood sport? These are the questions Michael Haneke asks in his movie ‘Funny Games.’ (If the …
I took a trip down to New York, which if you don’t know is a little more then 4 hours away from Boston. What better film to throw onto my iPhone then my old favorite Casino (clocking in at 2 hours 40 minutes, its length is perfect). While it’s fresh on my mind, I thought …
I have often said that if I could change voices with anyone I would go with (in no specific order): Orson Welles, the RZA, or Jimmy Stewart. Let us focus on that last one because I just watched ‘Rear Window’ with Mr. Stewart and it was great (segue). The movie is about a man, L.B. …
The Pythons made three official feature-length films, not counting ‘And Now For Something Completely Different’, which was a collection of skits from their television show, ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus.’ The first was ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ and the third was ‘Monty Python and the Meaning of Life’, which were both very funny and …
In honor of presidents day, I was trying to think of a film having to do with a President that I’d want to take another look at, I landed on one of my favorite films of all time, JFK. Oliver Stone, in 1991 wrote and directed in this reviewers humble opinion, one of the most …
I want to warn you that although I am sober as I write this review, when I watched this movie I was heavily medicated due to me battling a potentially fatal virus over the weekend. Granted a slight case of the sniffles has never killed anyone, well, anyone that didn’t already have it coming to …
Usually when I use my time machine I travel back to the year 12 BC
Martin Scorsese didn’t invent the mafia movie, he merely turned it into pop culture. Even though Coppola’s “The Godfather” is the obvious choice as the possibly be-all, end-all mafia film, Scorsese influenced a generation of directors with his fast paced and more popcorn-ish portrayal of mafia figures. Donnie Brasco is a copy of that portrayal. …
Ringo has a ring. A cult wants the ring. And for an hour and a half, the cult tries to get it off of Ringo’s finger, where the ring has been stuck. That is the plot of Richard Lester’s ‘Help!,’ the follow-up to ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ and the last of the Beatles acting career …