Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)

An open letter to James Cameron, from a life-long fan: Stop. Just…stop. Please. Enough is enough…and three, is enough. The Avatar Detachment Phenomenon is an odd one. It’s literally the most profitable franchise in science fiction movie history…yet we never seem to talk about it. Why not? In a broad sense, it doesn’t feel like […]

State of Grace (1990)

This is another of those titles that I always remember seeing in among the dizzying myriad of VHS tapes that adorned the walls of whatever video store I was either checking out or working at (5 are noted on the ole resume’, no bullshit). Even in the Way Back of the early ‘90’s, I knew […]

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Or, as the onscreen title proclaims it – David Lean’s Film of Doctor Zhivago For years, the only relation I had with Doctor Zhivago was the title’s prominent usage in my Second Favourite Movie Ever – True Romance (1993), inserted by Quentin Tarantino and Tony Scott as a clandestine place-holder for character conversations revolving around […]

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera (2025)

For those who didn’t want to dive into that original Den of Thieves review from years gone by, I can summarize it this way – when I first opted to check that first installment out on the Big Screen, very much on a whim, I’d gone in with next to no expectations. However, much like […]

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 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 […]