With this week’s release of The Dark Knight, I will follow the the lead of my Indiana Jones classic thoughts and take a look back at all the previous Batman films (with the exception of the 1969 movie based on the TV show, which I haven’t seen). BatmanIt all began with Tim Burton’s original adaptation…
Friday sees the release of Hellboy II: The Golden Army, which is Guillermo del Toro‘s first film since the huge success he found with this film, which was nominated for six Oscars and won three. Del Toro described this film as a spritual sequel to he previous Spanish-language film The Devil’s Backbone, in the way…
The political satire Wag the Dog came out over ten years ago, however its messages can still be seen as relevant in today’s world. When the U.S. president becomes involved in a sex scandal days before an election, a spin doctor (Robert De Niro) hires a Hollywood producer (Dustin Hoffman) to create a fake war…
I was never that familiar with the works of Hunter S. Thompson before I saw this film, which is based on the semi-autobiographical book of the same name. The easiest way for me to describe this film was that it was just one giant drug trip. There is some weird stuff an early in the…
For a film that is on so many “must-see” lists, it is odd that I have never seen Scarface until just last week. Then again, there are many classic films that I haven’t seen. The film may be considered a classic now, but when it came out it was controversial for the amount of violence…
This week’s classic thoughts is a “tale from the bargain bin” as I just picked up this film for only $4. Gothika is a product of Joel Silver’s and Robert Zemeckis’ Dark Castle production company, which was originally formed to create remakes of William Castle horror films and it eventually removed to original films (and…
It was just in March of this year when this film, which is arguably the Coen Brothers’ biggest cult film, celebrated its tenth anniversary. I myself just recently picked up this film on DVD. While, I was not too sure about this film on the first viewing, it started to grow on me during repeat…
With the release of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull imminent, it’s a no brainer that I should go back and revisit the original films from the series. Let’s get started. Raiders of the Lost ArkThe first film in the series is the film I chronologically seen last. This is only film in the series to…
I have to say that I am not super-excited for this week’s release of Prince Caspian. It would probably partially have to do with the fact that my experience with The Chronicles of Narnia begins and end with this film. Before this film came out, I saw the BBC version as a kid, as well…
With Speed Racer coming out this weekend, I thought that I would take a look back at the film that put The Wachowski Brothers on the map. When this film came out back in 1999, the duo were only known for the crime film Bound. As such, you can really consider The Matrix a surprise…
