A Revisit: Cowboys and Aliens (2011)

In the way back years of 2007-2011, I was a film revisor at a company in Vancouver BC called Technicolor Cinema Distribution and during my tenure there, this admittedly absurd and right-to-the-fucking-point titled flick came through my revising workspace, mildly intriguing me with it’s hefty marketing campaign and why-the-hell-not premise. While I didn’t end up […]

The Many Saints of Newark (2021)

As I’ve stated in many a past review, I’m a sucker for a good mob story and, in my humble opinion, HBO’s The Sopranos (1999-2007) is one of the straight-up best examples ever, and not just as a gangster story, but as a prime illustration on how to do long-form cinematic dramas in general. Added […]

A Revisit: A Sound of Thunder (2005)

While perusing one of my usual geek sites, I came across an article listing off a selection of unfinished films that were dumped into the market before they were 100% complete, for whatever reason. In among the handful of titles was this one. As I was reading what the article’s author had to say, I […]

A Revisit: D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)

Since I currently reside in the throes of a strangely productive mid-life crisis, I’ve been cherry-picking near-forgotten media from decades past, titles that, at one time or another, made some kind of an impact on lil ole me, enough so that I’m now daring to go back, to locate the best versions possible, and revisit […]

A Short Film: China Lake (1983)

Robert Harmon is a director who deserved a FAR more notable career in Hollywood than he ended up with, in my humble opinion. For a man with a truly distinct and oddly mature cinematic vision, much of his career is woefully bargain-basement (at a glance), with much of it seemingly devoted to some dumped-on-cable series […]

A Revisit: Farewell to the King (1989)

Movie nerd that I’ve always been, I have very fond memories of Movie Night with the family when I was a wee lad growing up in 1980’s British Columbia, when we’d go to the local Video Store, that always seemed to smell of popcorn and slight mustiness, rent a VCR (that weighed roughly the same […]

The Post (2017)

In my near half century on this small blue world of ours (damn, that’s depressing to see in writing), I’ve come to realize that there are three tiers, when it comes to the work of one of the finest filmmakers who’s ever lived – Steven Spielberg. In the top level, Tier One, you have most […]