Monthly Archives: August 2009
Retro Review: Pixar’s Cars
It has been a long time since Pixar began its quest to revolutionize the animation industry. It started over 10 years ago with the animated classic Toy Story in 1995 and what a ride it has been. Now there seems to be some fear that Pixar will lose its crown with the release of their [...]
Retro Review: Cast Away
This could be one of the most anticipated films of 2000. The re-teaming of Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis should equal magic or does it? Tom Hanks stars as a Fed-Ex executive who is trying to complete one last trans-pacific errand before Christmas. Leaving his fiancé (Helen Hunt), Hanks decides he can finish that one [...]
Fall TV: Pilot Review: Caprica
In 1978, we saw a sort of Star Wars clone explode across the airwaves as we learned the human race had a lost colony in deep space. That colony was trying to make its way back to Earth and escape some relentless android/alien attackers, Cylons, who were bent on wiping out the human race for [...]
Movie Review: Sunshine Cleaning
Sunshine Cleaning is really a tale of two sisters. You have one who was the beauty queen in high school, fell in love but he married another woman. And the other sister who has had a rough go of it with everything she does. Amy Adams stars as Rose the former high school beauty queen who is [...]
Retro Review: Catch a Fire
Phillip Noyce is probably one of my favorite under-appreciated directors working today. He has an impressive resume with directing films like “Patriot Games”, “Rabbit-Proof Fence”, “Dead Calm”, “The Bone Collector” and “The Quiet American”. With “Rabbit-Proof Fence”, Noyce began a trilogy of films that explores oppression in three different corners of the globe. In “Fence”, [...]
Retro Review: Cabin Fever
Do you remember those old “anti-drug” commercials with the frying pan and a raw egg? Well I have to compare the makers of “Cabin Fever” with that egg. Their brains were the raw egg when they first started making “Cabin Fever” but slowly the film cooked their minds. “Cabin Fever” is probably one of the [...]
Retro Review: The Cave
Monsters, caves, thrill-seekers, scientists and claustrophobia are all the elements that make “The Cave” just another one of those old-fashioned “monster-mash” movies. I suffer from an affliction. I love monster movies or as I call them creature features. I don’t care how cheesy they are or if there is some guy running around in a [...]
Blade Runner: A Look Back
It has been a couple years since I have seen Blade Runner. I have alot of fond memories of the film and I never got a chance to review it. What made me decide to was that the film has seen many incarnations over the years. Some say there are 7 distinct cuts of the [...]
Movie Review: Inglorious Basterds
After witnessing Inglorious Basterds, I am starting to lose my love for Quentin Tarantino. Quentin is a movie geek in the purest sense of the word. He studied movies when he worked in a local videostore where he honed his keen eye for dialogue and homage to forgotten genres. Everyone of his films is a [...]
Retro Review: Kill Bill Vol.1 & 2
Volume One The maniacal mind of director Quentin Tarantino has always been fixated with the world of samurai and kung-fu action genre films. The director has embraced a lot of films in the vein of those old subtitled Bruce Lee movies we all loved in the 1970s. But were they really that great that they [...]
