Saturday Night Live has had a slew of sketches that have made the leap to the big screen, stretched to feature length with varying success. The best example of a film that worked from SNL skitdom is The Blues Brothers, with other relatively entertaining ports including Coneheads, and MacGruber. And there have been more than…
Category: Reviews
300 (2006) – Review
Frank Miller is easily one of the most well-known comic book creators of today, and many of his works have managed to make it to the big screen, but it was when in 2005 that director Robert Rodriguez helmed the adaptation of his graphic novel Sin City that noncomic book fans took notice – its worldwide box take…
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) – Review
Action Movies are an interesting genre, the older films tend to look their age quite often. Now, generally it’s not the films fault, technology moves so quickly that jaw dropping special effects in the 80’s tend to look ludicrous in today’s day and age. One of my all time favorite action films not only holds…
How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) – Review
I’m a big fan of the first How To Train Your Dragon movie. It has great flight sequences, great characters, amazing music (I’ve played this song too many times to count), and well, it’s just an overall great movie. But do we really need a sequel? Is this just some sort of cash grab playing…
Maleficent (2014) – Review
Revamping classic fairy tales has almost become its own genre, we’ve had Snow White and the Huntsman, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, and Oz the Great and Powerful, now the unfortunate thing about all this is that none of them have been all that good. I’m not saying they have no redeeming qualities- the often…