The media blitz of Batman 1989

The incredible hype train for the movie Batman 1989 reminded me of how bad the hype was for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Whole books have been written about the successful… Continue reading →

Did you watch a war movie on Memorial Day?

There were all kinds of war movies on TV over the Memorial Day weekend. Yep, if you’re an American and you watch TV, there really was no way around seeing war movies on… Continue reading →

After Dr. Strangelove and the real meaning of 2001 #2001

Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove was released in 1964 and he pissed off a lot of people. He made fun of a lot of the elite class and corporations and the military itself. He… Continue reading →

Great Debate: What is an aspirational hero? #movies

Do we have any aspirational heroes anymore? Aspirational heroes are iconically PURE, and none of them are popular today. The most popular heroes today have a lot of flaws, because flaws add color,… Continue reading →

Greatest of the High Brow: Beethoven vs Mozart

This could be the greatest high brow movie battle of all time, pitting Roger Ebert’s favorite movie against the most decorated movie of the 80s. Amadeus was released in 1984 to critical praise… Continue reading →

Kevin Bacon returns on-demand in a 2020 cheapass horror movie

A movie trailer grabbed me and threw me against the wall, demanding to know why I wasn’t following Kevin Bacon’s career.  I had no answer, because the last Kevin Bacon movie I watched… Continue reading →

What is The Prize? Is the Prize an analogy? Highlander (1986)

The Immortals in Highlander (1986) fight for The Prize, a very vague and unexplained gift given to the winner of the contest, after a sword competition to the death.  It’s really just a… Continue reading →

Great Debate: Why does everybody hate Freddy’s Revenge?

Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge is an uncomfortable and unusual movie.  It takes a whole other direction as compared to the original and departs from some of the established Freddy tropes,… Continue reading →

Tracing Star Trek Insurrection

Tracing and exploring the creation of Star Trek Insurrection is one way of opening a book written by writer Michael Piller, who died in 2005 of cancer, leaving behind hundreds of hours of… Continue reading →

Suspiria 2018 All Spoilers All Hidden Meanings

There’s certainly a lot of time to unravel the mysteries in Suspiria 2018, because the run time is such a slog to get through.  This movie has elements of guilt, feminism, The Cold… Continue reading →

Great Debate: Defending Halloween 2

The new Halloween (2018) is out pretty soon and it ignores all of the sequels, which got me thinking about Halloween 2, the one John Carpenter hates.  Overall, Halloween 2 is a bad… Continue reading →

What’s in the box? What’s in the envelope? Leaps of logic and assumptions in movies

Okay, so you’ve come to a critical part in the movie you’re watching, and you as a viewer have got to make a leap of deduction in order to understand what’s going, which… Continue reading →

The Biggest Terminator Plot Hole of All Time

Okay, so the original Terminator movie from 1984 is awesome, but what about the plot holes?  Do the plot holes ruin the movie for you?  Not me, but they do make my brain… Continue reading →

Great Debate: Why is it cool to hate the prequels?

The hate for the Star Wars prequels is just coming out of the woodwork this week.  I think because the new movie is due out very soon, everyone is just bananas about everything… Continue reading →

Great Debate: The Batman v Superman Trailer sucks

I really don’t think Warner Brothers will EVER get it through their thick skull what comic book fans want to see in a comic book movie.  It seems as if the studio is just… Continue reading →