In 1970, Universal Studios kicked off a franchise that would set the tone for the disaster movies of the 70s and the decades to come; based on Arthur Hailey’s popular novel of the same name, Airport would become one of the studio’s top earners that year and its formula of personal stories intertwined with horrific events…
Bumblebee (2018) – Review
What happens when you get the man behind such animated films as Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, and give him a live-action Transformers movie? Well, the answer to that is you get a movie that is pretty much the exact opposite of the Michael Bay atrocities — which have made billions of dollars…
Zero Hour! (1957) – Review
Before author Arthur Hailey wrote his bestseller novel Airport, which was later turned into the movie of the same name, he had penned a teleplay for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation called Flight into Danger — starring James “Scotty” Doohan — that Hailey then adapted into the screenplay for Paramount Pictures under the title Zero Hour! and…
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) – Review
Do you remember Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham? Well, if you’re not a kid from the 80s there is a good chance you don’t, but now Sony Pictures brings a new Spider-Man movie that will gleefully fill that hole in your soul that you didn’t even know you had. Loosely based on the multiple-title Marvel…
Black Christmas (1974) – Review
If there are two more vastly different Christmas movies than A Christmas Story and Black Christmas I’m unaware of them, and that these perennial favourites were directed by the same man, Bob Clark just makes it all the more amazing, and for many fans out there the Christmas season isn’t quite complete without a viewing…