Jason Bourne (2016)

Ok, Bourne…if the time has come for you to walk into the sunset for the last time…I’m going to let ya. Hell, truth be told, I would’ve been perfectly satisfied with Matt Damon capping off the now-iconic role with his last turn in 2007’s kick-ass ‘The Bourne Ultimatum’…much as I would’ve been happy with the […]

Suicide Squad (2016)

Today is my birthday. My wonderful gal pal thought (correctly) that it’d be a cool thing if part of this particular day was spent trying out the VIP theatre at the nearby Cineplex, in our new hood. And the chosen flick…DC’s newest attempt to win over the fanboys…’Suicide Squad’! In truth, I feel kinda of […]

Star Trek Beyond (2016)

Ah, it’s good to be back. Here we are, smack dab in the middle of the Summer Movie Season, and due to our choice to get the hell out of our shitty, ghetto-like neighborhood, my attention and the time that would be used to devour the selection of ‘big’ flicks that currently adorn screens across […]

The Rift aka Endless Descent (1990)

Even if this low rent piece of shit had been released the year before, during the head-to-head Battle at the Box Office of 1989, between the other ‘underwater thrillers’ like the vastly superior ‘The Abyss’, the unapologetically entertaining ‘Leviathan’, and the moronic ‘Deep Star Six’…it still wouldn’t have stood a snowballs chance in Hell. I’d […]

Saturn 3 (1980)

Ok, now THAT was some hilarious shit! I’d heard about Saturn 3 several times over the years as one of those lower budget sci-fi flicks that REALLY tried to jump onto the Star Wars bandwagon in light of the movie-going audiences apparent thirst for Big Scale Science Fiction / Horror at the time. I throw […]

Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

Back in the wild ole days of 1996, two movies came out that essentially changed the genres they owed their existences to. One of them was ‘Scream’, which gave the tired ‘slasher’ franchise a much-needed jolt of energy, while the other was ‘Independence Day’. I remember the summer that it opened and it was BIG […]

The Manhattan Project (1986)

For a significant chunk of my (so far) 38 years on this fine little planet of ours, I’ve been a collector of some specific things, going back to my youth. Along with movies…I’ve been hoarding books from about as long as I can remember. Way back in The Day (the 80’s and early 90’s), access […]

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

Well, ‘X2: X-Men United’ (2003) is in no danger of being replaced as my favorite ‘X-Men’ flick, that’s for sure. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed this series, especially the portions directed by Bryan Singer (‘The Usual Suspects’). Matthew Vaughn (‘Kick-Ass’) gave us a slick ‘off-shoot’ with 2011’s ‘X-Men: First Class’ also, while hack director Brett Ratner (‘Rush […]

The Nice Guys (2016)

Shane Black is back!…back doing what Shane Black does best!! The man is pretty much the epitome of ‘Living the Hollywood Dream’. In his early 20’s, in California circa the mid-1980’s, a script of his came to the attention of powerhouse Film Producer Joel Silver and Warner Bros., with his ‘R-Rated Action Movie story, ‘Lethal […]

Captain America: Civil War (2016)

And here we go again!…with that now-familiar pattern of ‘two Big Budget summer ‘tent-pole’ movies sharing a similar story or theme, being released at roughly the same time, and duking it out at the Box Office’ rearing its ugly head again. The first one, in this case, was ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’, in […]