An Examination: The Black Stallion (1979), The Black Stallion Returns (1983)

In my family, we all have our passions / obsessions. With my Dad, it’s Music. With my sister, it’s Health and Fitness and with my Mom…it’s Horses. For pretty much my entire existence, horses have played a key part, where my mother is concerned. The woman knows her shit and it’s impressive. While I was […]

The Believers (1987)

Way back when, as my film obsession really began to take hold, I found myself becoming more and more interested by the Rating tags that would turn up on movie posters. To me, especially since I was at the age (8-12) when I started checking out edgier fare (thanks, Mom and Dad!), I found the […]

An Examination: First Blood (1982), Rambo: First Blood Part 2 (1985), Rambo III (1988), Rambo (2007)

I don’t know just how many on-screen deaths I saw yesterday…but it was a friggin lot! So, here’s the situation: My Significantly Better Half is away on a much-deserved vacation with her family, half-way across Canada. I’ve been left to my own devices…and this is the type of shit that happens, when THAT happens. One […]

Stake Land (2010)

This doesn’t happen too often, thankfully…but I always feel a little guilty when a friend recommends a movie that he / she swears I’m going to dig…and I walk away, when the credits roll, wondering just what they’d been smoking to lead to such a recommendation. Such is the case here. One my coworkers, a […]

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015)

I almost feel as though I’m supposed to be ashamed of this, but as an actor…I like Thomas Cruise Mapother III. Tom Cruise (The actual human) is a batshit-crazy lunatic enslaved by a sinister space cult that has somehow snuggle struggled it’s way into Hollywood…but The Actor has charisma and undeniable screen ‘presence’… not to […]

Black Sea (2014)

It’s weird. I like being on the ocean (to a certain degree), but the idea of being stranded at sea or forced to exist, in some capacity, under it…scares the shit outta me. Not only does my overactive imagination conjure up images of huge, carnivorous beasts lurking in the dark freezing depths, but there’s also […]

Seven Psychopaths (2012)

This is an odd one…and I liked it! ‘Seven Psychopaths’ has been on my radar since it’s release in the ‘way back’ of 2012 and I’ve now FINALLY feasted my peepers upon it. First and foremost, the casting is what initially intrigued me. Couple that with a strange, almost Tarantino-esque premise and execution, and I […]

Ant-Man (2015)

Eventually Marvel Studios is going to toss out a high-budget, Marvel-Universe ‘blockbuster-wannabe’ flick…and the world will watch it crash and burn. It’ll be an idea that’s SO ‘out there’ that if fails to connect with the vast audience this studio has been carefully cultivating over the last 8 or so years. Last year, I wasn’t […]

Terminator Genisys (2015)

Ouch! That. Was. Painful. Now, my Spidey-senses certainly pointed directly into the ‘NOT GOOD’ column after I saw the first trailer for this steaming pile, but damn…sometimes I hate it when they turn out THIS correct! What’s even more baffling (aside from James Cameron’s suspicious endorsement for this insult to his original two films) is […]

Snowpiercer (2013)

This multinational (but Korean-led) science fiction film has been floating around in the peripheries of my cinematic consciousness for a while. I liked director Joon-Ho Bong’s previous ‘creature feature’ effort ‘The Host’ (2006); a cool lil flick with some surprising humor and sweet visuals that I easily recommend, so his production style, coupled with this […]