Movies that pit a kid, or a group of children, against adults fills a certain wish fulfilment in a particular demographic, because what kid didn’t imagine he was one of the Goonies, hunting pirate treasure while the nasty Fratelli family…
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With the year of George Orwell’s 1984 looming on the near horizon, it was not at all surprising that Hollywood would make a film where corrupt American government officials were seen developing a system that could not only wage war…
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When making a killer shark movie there is one thing a filmmaker must first come to grips with — that you will not be making a film better than Spielberg’s Jaws; it’s just not going to happen, and with the…
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Remember the 80s, when prostitution consisted of wacky hijinks and hookers with a heart of gold, and not underage girls, abused and strung out on various drugs? Hollywood has had a long history with the “oldest profession,” and in a…
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There is a point in Mission: Impossible – Fallout where a character brings up a question that audience members have been asking themselves for over two decades, “How many times has Hunt’s government betrayed him, disavowed him, cast him aside?…
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If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then special effects master Ray Harryhausen should have felt very flattered when producer Edward Small released his fantasy film Jack the Giant Killer back in 1962 – a film that not only…
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Most people alive today are familiar with the Grimm fairy tales through their popular Disney incarnations – Uncle Walt having basically made a decades-long career producing animated classic based on those old tales – but in 1962, MGM studios tackled…
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Looking back over the last twenty-five years, it’s hard to imagine just how big an impact The Death of Superman comic had when it was initially released. Not only were many comic fans shocked, but it became a media circus across the…
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Blending a disaster movie with a heist plot is nothing new – though the latest one being The Hurricane Heist was god awful – and having it star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is definitely going to put more bums in…
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In 1969, the song “Proud Mary” was written by John Fogerty – for his band Clearance Clearwater Revival – but aside from the title character of this movie being named Mary, there isn’t much else they have in common. The…
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