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 variety of depictions, such as the decidedly sanitized versions seen in Billy Wilder’s Irma la…
Category: Reviews
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) – Review
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? How long before a man like that has had enough?” Clearly, if it took this long…
Jack the Giant Killer (1962) – Review
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 borrowed elements from Harryhausen’s 1958 film The 7th Voyage of Sinbad but also its director…
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) – Review
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 the subject matter with an interesting “biographical” approach: instead of animated versions of the Grimm’s…
The Death of Superman (2018) – Review
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 by the even but it became a media circus across the board – which I always found especially weird when you consider…