Get ready to dish out some serious dough, lettuce, bones, clams, moulah for the upcoming Bond 50 mega collection containing every film from Dr. No to Quantum of Solace. Fox and MGM have teamed up on this 22 movie set to give Bond fans an all new hi-definition experience making […]
Runaway Train is a fast paced, action-adventure film that was based on a screenplay by Akira Kurosawa and shelved due to financial troubles. The rights to the abandoned script was later bought and re-written by Djordje Millicevic, Eddie Bunker and Paul Zindel and turned into a film directed by Andrei […]
The typical war movie is usually about soldiers that fight to uphold democracy and justice in the face of tyranny and focuses on the themes of honor and duty to country. Last Memorial Day in honor of all fallen soldiers we put together a 50 Furious War Film List which […]
Marlene Dietrich stars as a super-sexy traveling cabaret singer named “Bijou Blanche” in this 1940 romantic-adventure classic. At the opening of the film, we see the after effects of Bijou’s steamy, stimulating performance at a bar in Shanghai, a huge brawl erupts and Bijou has to take off for her […]
When it comes to action-adventure cinema, there’s one subgenre that always stands out from the rest: the survival film. Whether it be the classic “man vs. nature” storylines, the “game of death” tales or “hunter and hunted” yarns, they are about human beings that must overcome treacherous obstacles and face […]
The disaster film was one of the most popular subgenres audiences flocked to during the 1970s. There were several big hits such as the Airport films, Earthquake, The Towering Inferno and Avalanche. Ronald Neame‘s The Poseidon Adventure (1972) was one of the best, it starred Gene Hackman as Reverend Scott […]
I’m not a fan of remakes of classic films as I’ve explained in detail here, but there’s always exceptions and the 1976 Dino DeLaurentiis produced version of King Kong remains one of my favorites. Compared to Peter Jackson’s 2005 critically acclaimed farce, I still think this film is much better. […]
Movies just wouldn’t be as exciting if they didn’t contain those colorfully warped characters known as “villains”. Often times these people are merely twisted, lonely, misunderstood souls that have been psychologically damaged and/or are out for revenge. Then there’s the flat out, pure evil ones who have nothing driving them […]
“You ain’t stopping at this hotel, kid. My hotel! The stars at night, I put ’em there. And I know the presidents, all of them. And I go where I damn well please. Even the chairman of the New York Central can’t do it better. My road, kid, and I […]
In tribute to the annual Sundance Film Festival here’s a review one of our favorite films starring Robert Redford. This film was shot in and around Sundance, Utah… “His name was Jeremiah Johnson, and they say he wanted to be a mountain man. The story goes that he was a […]