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 […]

The Final Countdown (1980)

As I’ve noted in previous reviews, I’m something of an Aircraft Nerd…especially military aircraft. It’s been that way for as far back as I can remember. My inner 8 year old takes over anytime an exotic or military plane appears in the sky, and I get giddy and excitable. It’s probably embarrassing for anyone with […]

Midnight Special (2016)

If I had to sum this movie up, right off the bat, I would have to call it a ‘love letter’ to several of the classic fantasy / sci-fi flicks from the 80’s…one of cinema’s undeniable Golden Ages. As I watched this strangely-paced science-fiction film, I was acutely reminded of the films ‘E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial’ […]

The Jungle Book (2016)

Jon Favreau has done it again. I think it’s fair to say that we can lump him into the same elevated category as JJ Abrams, in terms of technical prowess and overall understanding of the medium of film, as an art and as an enterprise. Every single movie I’ve seen of Favreau’s, I’ve liked, to […]