IF THE CULT HORROR 'HOUSE' INSPIRED 'THE WALKING DEAD'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwyWCvVikoiNFdTeJJa2crRXmCXGtosX4gFuw7MK-KNok1TlqT28ArwB_ROn_6sWmFJ4kDY0pc1zXRZ6azyDcI0NXfm5yAtFf9VZ76c1CTAaTMngb4VVLJySrDmImdpF3Kl1k2xmFrbhPJ/s1600/888.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="703" data-original-width="1310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwyWCvVikoiNFdTeJJa2crRXmCXGtosX4gFuw7MK-KNok1TlqT28ArwB_ROn_6sWmFJ4kDY0pc1zXRZ6azyDcI0NXfm5yAtFf9VZ76c1CTAaTMngb4VVLJySrDmImdpF3Kl1k2xmFrbhPJ/s1600/888.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The powerful "Witch" creature in the horror comedy flick HOUSE that possibly inspired...</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ8hrVXfqqJSFodOrgw8RltcTE4RO7KVCkKBc6NGo2vNYZ_qkZQZSKqd1Pe36S821sl0ZsGVLmm9D6sOb0CyRgJV4dgSrkzYMk0KV30Eb29BcNbzTt-fwsjHs0G952K2VjTiIc5NUbTTom/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="1095" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ8hrVXfqqJSFodOrgw8RltcTE4RO7KVCkKBc6NGo2vNYZ_qkZQZSKqd1Pe36S821sl0ZsGVLmm9D6sOb0CyRgJV4dgSrkzYMk0KV30Eb29BcNbzTt-fwsjHs0G952K2VjTiIc5NUbTTom/s1600/3.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sans the lipstick and blouse color and with no fangs here's the WALKING DEAD mid-life crisis white trash mama ghoul</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE9Hk1LH9zDH8yhLc6v4k4zErnO-w-x0ViiZFBDN_nbjoEKrAW_g3aGVUwa3GBRAvPOb6Oq8LU5KCPP2ExehxUqcp-8nL58XDoDgqNimTrf1wiSJIle2EdOOIEWcP58Ka5QChuhURhA1zm/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="1044" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE9Hk1LH9zDH8yhLc6v4k4zErnO-w-x0ViiZFBDN_nbjoEKrAW_g3aGVUwa3GBRAvPOb6Oq8LU5KCPP2ExehxUqcp-8nL58XDoDgqNimTrf1wiSJIle2EdOOIEWcP58Ka5QChuhURhA1zm/s1600/1.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Another shot of the walker that resembles the most memorable creature in Sean S. Cunningham's HOUSE</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghmR0uEj1c729AS7_938tLU32L0O-jm1Qa2os57nTHUQ0a9wqy6bmHamN4L6kjVpjD4n2Y_P09mCLlUmr5A49T8ttuf06oz1BSyXb6zh0d86rfC0FhA5wE6-Kbsbjf8l2-SVZiM0ViuypY/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="1099" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghmR0uEj1c729AS7_938tLU32L0O-jm1Qa2os57nTHUQ0a9wqy6bmHamN4L6kjVpjD4n2Y_P09mCLlUmr5A49T8ttuf06oz1BSyXb6zh0d86rfC0FhA5wE6-Kbsbjf8l2-SVZiM0ViuypY/s1600/2.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>THE WALKING DEAD and HOUSE from 1986... WALKING DEAD House... And so on...</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCZOdAkfk6d0DubkhrNmFd4YqOajHZiOesM7vNFYzQZ3RIJZWkWUv6PAEO_otp2B3vjvQXFyzF8GNQ5ucPBg1sIMBUuUlLtTFqCnBCSaMd-66qhScJ_5ysosMzKEwFwyjh-UwURg3B7GOh/s1600/IU.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="237" data-original-width="828" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCZOdAkfk6d0DubkhrNmFd4YqOajHZiOesM7vNFYzQZ3RIJZWkWUv6PAEO_otp2B3vjvQXFyzF8GNQ5ucPBg1sIMBUuUlLtTFqCnBCSaMd-66qhScJ_5ysosMzKEwFwyjh-UwURg3B7GOh/s1600/IU.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u style="font-size: 12.8px;">WALKING DEAD House creature back to back side by side juxtaposed</u></td></tr> </tbody></table>

2016, cable, eighties, sean s. cunningham, tribute, william katt

IF THE CULT HORROR 'HOUSE' INSPIRED 'THE WALKING DEAD'

The powerful "Witch" creature in the horror comedy flick HOUSE that possibly inspired... Sans the lipstick and blouse colo...

YOU DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS REVIEW OF POWER RANGERS

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3d-01jQG_SGh7Yq8JdajADEhlVOBHOaqixhZoTDUutuVlRPYkPqCGx9cId80r3dH2jQox12NixNQwpk4kPElscdaKm_z8w6FxS9cUfpu3Mp7MLuSLS5Nulin1Zm0DqXyVbGH4UAXV-wXW/s1600/landscape_ustv-power-rangers-original-cast.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3d-01jQG_SGh7Yq8JdajADEhlVOBHOaqixhZoTDUutuVlRPYkPqCGx9cId80r3dH2jQox12NixNQwpk4kPElscdaKm_z8w6FxS9cUfpu3Mp7MLuSLS5Nulin1Zm0DqXyVbGH4UAXV-wXW/s400/landscape_ustv-power-rangers-original-cast.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The Rangers hanging at David Letterman's old Late Nite set YEAR: 2017</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not long ago, once-successful director John Landis's currently working son, Max, wrote CHRONICLE, centering on a group of underdog teenagers gaining superpowers, and one difference between that movie and this one is: these kids <i>really want</i> to be superheroes in order to save the world: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But for the mere fact of <i>not</i> using the Paranormal Activity/Blair Witch method of kids videotaping everything that the audience experiences, POWER RANGERS, like Michael Bay's TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, attempts to turn an extraordinarily dated and embarrassingly campy TV show into brooding, reluctant, ragged heroes liken to the MARVEL franchise; although RANGERS is a lot more like DC given the amount of time for the characters to finally admit — in this case, despite being told over a dozen times by Bryan Cranston's giant "big brother" face in a million-year-old spaceship — that they are in fact very <i>special</i> kids...</span><br>

2016, action, based on TV, bryan cranston, kids, science-fiction

YOU DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS REVIEW OF POWER RANGERS

The Rangers hanging at David Letterman's old Late Nite set YEAR: 2017 Not long ago, once-successful director John Landis's curre...

TOM CRUISE ONCE AGAIN AS JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZGj-rQcXMWCLJZphPRbh9E8yrDk5kSTlEpCn_wKUk749ARZQ27SLNiehx3EMzN9L-rx7BIvIRM9ClZ9hsMIoRAmaP9UtWzBGaEOVJRveuDC2oT-3ap9pJNSGP7ZWFvTx4zKmPJfFtwePf/s1600/Screen+Shot+2017-06-28+at+2.07.44+PM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="525" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZGj-rQcXMWCLJZphPRbh9E8yrDk5kSTlEpCn_wKUk749ARZQ27SLNiehx3EMzN9L-rx7BIvIRM9ClZ9hsMIoRAmaP9UtWzBGaEOVJRveuDC2oT-3ap9pJNSGP7ZWFvTx4zKmPJfFtwePf/s400/Screen+Shot+2017-06-28+at+2.07.44+PM.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>It's a family affair this time for JACK REACHER Year: 2016</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There's a sequel titled SON OF KONG so why not DAUGHTER OF REACHER? Well for the most part, it's not a foregone conclusion he's really the father. Either way, a tagalong kid (or teen) doesn't usually belong in an espionage/action flick...</span><br> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Although in the original there was a troubled girl but this time it's closer, and personal. The first thing the icy asskicker has <i>really</i> cared about. He's the kind of (ex-Army) rogue hero bordering on anti-hero who knows the score before each maneuver. So there was a touch of slowburn Neo-Noir in the first picture, and now, one of that genre's major plot-lines is the core: Jack's a "Wrong Man," accused of, as the story goes on, several deaths along the path where he's already been...</span><br>

2016, action, cobie smulders, espionage, military, sequel, suspense, tom cruise, wrong man

TOM CRUISE ONCE AGAIN AS JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK

It's a family affair this time for JACK REACHER Year: 2016 There's a sequel titled SON OF KONG so why not DAUGHTER OF REACHER? W...

KEANU REEVES BACK BLASTING IN JOHN WICK CHAPTER 2

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPdQ-tdl4pdu9AdI1jrvqAbJCS55L9BvlGgBKM8bshyphenhyphenh-zkCIIbrQaVil5DA2eeyDMdl6CE4usZKvD8XFVR0e5gkKz-QjODIJTmoEminYVGkpfQXmaF0cqK6rmWT13faUjKoNlaRnEojur/s1600/share.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1127" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPdQ-tdl4pdu9AdI1jrvqAbJCS55L9BvlGgBKM8bshyphenhyphenh-zkCIIbrQaVil5DA2eeyDMdl6CE4usZKvD8XFVR0e5gkKz-QjODIJTmoEminYVGkpfQXmaF0cqK6rmWT13faUjKoNlaRnEojur/s320/share.jpg" width="320"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Keanu finds himself in a brand new franchise YEAR: 2016</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm not that guy anymore...</span></blockquote> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A line uttered by JOHN WICK, again played by Keanu Reeves, in the new venture: Yet you'd think this kind of morose surrender would come after three or four movies, having gotten to know "that guy" a lot better. And this sequel is referred to as CHAPTER 2, which makes sense since the original action-packed sleeper was very basic and satisfying i.e. more like a chapter than a book...</span><br>

2016, genre tarantino, keanu reeves

KEANU REEVES BACK BLASTING IN JOHN WICK CHAPTER 2

Keanu finds himself in a brand new franchise YEAR: 2016 I'm not that guy anymore... A line uttered by JOHN WICK, again played by K...

ROB ZOMBIE WRITES & DIRECTS THE BLOODFEST OF 31

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-zbJZk1xiZ7Wigb_QoE01k7BPUNTnh543nWEPMqNHF6HBnTM4oPX89P3Jbb9rK8V00rRp2xXgyF8nlWWn_Lt-K76wnHUpAK-fP6c0nSHu-AMcNnbpb54M7tbHzl0r88fVB308kqa1NJqA/s1600/31-Movie-Poster-1000x515.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="918" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-zbJZk1xiZ7Wigb_QoE01k7BPUNTnh543nWEPMqNHF6HBnTM4oPX89P3Jbb9rK8V00rRp2xXgyF8nlWWn_Lt-K76wnHUpAK-fP6c0nSHu-AMcNnbpb54M7tbHzl0r88fVB308kqa1NJqA/s400/31-Movie-Poster-1000x515.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>1970's Homage Style Poster Art for 31 Year: 2016</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Rob Zombie's "31" is one of those horror movies that's terrifying for the fictional characters but not one bit scary to the audience... </span><br> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br></span> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Seeming like a twisted version of THE RUNNING MAN (originally derived from THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME), five people have to survive a tortuous hunting underground hosted by Malcolm McDowell and two old ladies, dressed in wigged European aristocrat costumes, letting the would-be victims know how much time is left, and which antagonist is next up to bat: All bearing names with Head at the end, such as Sick-Head and Doom-Head, they resemble Heath Ledger's Joker combined with Rob's usual Killer Clown motif with a dash of TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE demented redneck.</span><br>

2016, body count, horror, lawrence hilton-jacobs, malcolm mcdowell, rob zombie

ROB ZOMBIE WRITES & DIRECTS THE BLOODFEST OF 31

1970's Homage Style Poster Art for 31 Year: 2016 Rob Zombie's "31" is one of those horror movies that's terrifying...

PRODIGAL WARREN BEATTY RETURNS IN RULES DON'T APPLY

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI0LcA-Kq7xZlW1uW3J3DLgdZvlMJUvPC4cFeqLbopPVD3p4z2oyKSFHqjQSngQfhtG-sEZy5iywU_pB0I4w4ooqmddsrRPxlAZcVXHMUeApKEEPl7mey3HZYG1HQhFeIkckNsyFJe2HFV/s1600/81ckBXplzaL._SL1500_.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1300" data-original-width="995" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI0LcA-Kq7xZlW1uW3J3DLgdZvlMJUvPC4cFeqLbopPVD3p4z2oyKSFHqjQSngQfhtG-sEZy5iywU_pB0I4w4ooqmddsrRPxlAZcVXHMUeApKEEPl7mey3HZYG1HQhFeIkckNsyFJe2HFV/s400/81ckBXplzaL._SL1500_.jpg" width="305"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 2016 Rating: **</u></td></tr> </tbody></table><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">RULES DON'T APPLY stars and is directed by Warren Beatty, who left Hollywood over ten years ago after his comedy disaster TOWN & COUNTRY was chopped on the editing block, not by the studio but the man himself: guilty for his own massive failure... </span><br> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br></span> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">So this is a return for not only Beatty the filmmaker but the actor, whose subtle touch is usually effective yet rarely extraordinary, although he doesn't sell himself as the lead herein: </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Upon first glance, it seems like the film's starlet, Lily Collins as Maria, is a very, very young small town girl up for a part in a Howard Hughes picture... Beatty's Hughes speaks in a purposeful monotone since the real life billionaire's well-known insanity gives any actor a sky's-the-limit opportunity to chew the scenery. In that, he plays it strange yet extremely grounded, and by the time it's realized that Collins is slightly older than she initially appeared, a creepy scene occurs, ruining what had been building up in an effectively mysterious fashion: simply put, it seems that Warren, the famous womanizer, now married and old, gave himself a chance for a love scene with a schoolgirl that a dirty old man could conjure up in his fantasies: liken to an aging action star who'd cast a younger badass to fight, and defeat, so goes the short-lived March/December romance for the aging, mummified Playboy...</span><br>

2016, alden ehrenreich, bio, lily collins, warren beatty

PRODIGAL WARREN BEATTY RETURNS IN RULES DON'T APPLY

Year: 2016 Rating: ** RULES DON'T APPLY stars and is directed by Warren Beatty, who left Hollywood over ten years ago after his come...

MARVEL GROUNDS THE TRULY BIZARRE OF DOCTOR STRANGE

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglQlZEl6lkMGoWF2ThzM2d3AlHcuB3T8IFjSMQLuK2XDj1PpWsLj2IuOjeqpTa3uA61lacRUQ3hQ3s_EYpX6gcQvaH00XC8FBy8dYnokmo9O6VAVLGqbY1gCugqVUdd_aBzrQNWfSkcRNN/s1600/Screen+Shot+2017-06-12+at+11.35.26+AM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="461" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglQlZEl6lkMGoWF2ThzM2d3AlHcuB3T8IFjSMQLuK2XDj1PpWsLj2IuOjeqpTa3uA61lacRUQ3hQ3s_EYpX6gcQvaH00XC8FBy8dYnokmo9O6VAVLGqbY1gCugqVUdd_aBzrQNWfSkcRNN/s400/Screen+Shot+2017-06-12+at+11.35.26+AM.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dragon image in one of many Strange posters YEAR: 2016</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How a comic book adaption like this could be so... well... <i>strange</i> and still make enough sense... at least while you're watching.... is nothing short of miraculous. Or maybe we want it to be clear enough to remain on track this multi-level, cerebral rollercoaster...</span><br> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br></span> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc3mHZNZ5N-RkMTKd_Dzy0NxMRk4FEB7XZmn_BLN-O-lr4YJ679I9drBOfoDV6IPPwBSoOmzclfr7zBiFQgQqvMHPaf5u7yNP0doKjQqCa-UoK-TOlKkZBa1GfZ4ZwyRvC1Yuc1HkQ6ren/s1600/Screen+Shot+2017-06-12+at+2.11.34+PM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="134" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc3mHZNZ5N-RkMTKd_Dzy0NxMRk4FEB7XZmn_BLN-O-lr4YJ679I9drBOfoDV6IPPwBSoOmzclfr7zBiFQgQqvMHPaf5u7yNP0doKjQqCa-UoK-TOlKkZBa1GfZ4ZwyRvC1Yuc1HkQ6ren/s320/Screen+Shot+2017-06-12+at+2.11.34+PM.jpg" width="117"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nuther Filler Pic</td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Benedict Cumberbatch plays the title character with a dash of Robert Downey Jr. style sarcasm. Perhaps any superhero, before taking on a Marvel lead, crams for the <i>Tony Stark 101</i> test since wry, glib humor helps ground a bizarre, otherworldly situation...</span></span><br> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Before Downey, Bill Murray did it in GHOSTBUSTERS. Jeff Goldblum in JURASSIC PARK. And many films beforehand allowing the audience to not only laugh during intense moments, but to take random breaks from the pandemonium (basically, the main star becomes his own sidekick). </span></span><br> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And in the case of DOCTOR STRANGE, Cumberbatch <i>does</i> have a style all his own. An intellectual countenance makes for a realistically brilliant surgeon who thinks too highly of himself </span>—<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> with a reason, sort of. The only doctor who can pull off nearly inconceivable  operations, his life is as perfect as his sleek, expensive car. That's until listening Pink Floyd's INTERSTELLAR OVERDRIVE (early Syd Barrett era instrumental) and crashing down a mountainside, which is too quick and seems forced to get our man to the point where the origin story needs boundless desperation to ignite...</span></span><br>

2016, action, benedict cumberbatch, comic book, fantasy, marvel, science-fiction

MARVEL GROUNDS THE TRULY BIZARRE OF DOCTOR STRANGE

Dragon image in one of many Strange posters YEAR: 2016 How a comic book adaption like this could be so... well... strange and still mak...

KEVIN SMITH GOES ONLY SKIN DEPP FOR HIS YOGA HOSERS

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguV4jfMZ_JyMD4uGgn3YJec_55P-cAkDH6RLx6x8deifVDY5HM6YLz1BKtLbnRuKBcyc-0OQ22mP8in8HOAexJ4Icc46sldP1b6p-8M1WKYjxjDipKbWpxRoBJa-JAhYZEXfPA1KxjlKp1/s1600/static1.squarespace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguV4jfMZ_JyMD4uGgn3YJec_55P-cAkDH6RLx6x8deifVDY5HM6YLz1BKtLbnRuKBcyc-0OQ22mP8in8HOAexJ4Icc46sldP1b6p-8M1WKYjxjDipKbWpxRoBJa-JAhYZEXfPA1KxjlKp1/s400/static1.squarespace.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Smith and Depp's daughter hit the big time, kinda YEAR: 2015</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Because he had no other choice, Kevin Smith started exactly where he was at... the very bottom, financially... for his black and white crass comedy, CLERKS, which had a great script, a gang of real characters playing fictional ones and a location that really put you <i>there </i>for the action and, on purpose, complete lack of...<br> <br> Which was followed by the much too colorful (and hopelessly vacant) MALLRATS that led to Smith's best venture, CHASING AMY and, years later when his indie magic had dried up and after failing at the conventional box office, he intentionally returned to the slacker's den where, along with a podcast show, there's an attempt to make daughter Harley Quinn Smith a star. But not by herself. Along with this every-girl, just comfortable enough in front of the camera, is pixie model Lily-Rose Depp; the daughter of Johnny Depp, who, between million dollar PIRATE successes and a string of artistic misfires, seems to be doing Kevin a return-favor by appearing in both TUSK and the latest, YOGA HOSERS, as a spaced-out, boil-faced, scraggly-haired private eye (of sorts) named Guy Lapointe, a hybrid of Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau, Robert Shaw's Quint from JAWS and Peter Falk's scruffy TV Detective COLUMBO.<br> <br>

2016, comedy, horror, kevin smith

KEVIN SMITH GOES ONLY SKIN DEPP FOR HIS YOGA HOSERS

Smith and Depp's daughter hit the big time, kinda YEAR: 2015 Because he had no other choice, Kevin Smith started exactly where he wa...

NEGAN & MAREK: 'NO ESCAPE' FROM 'THE WALKING DEAD'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZcD0ke9PgP04Lj22cPj6IGqiqVTxZEVeOIejEZF_mqjtQdL3gwXX6VqckMlhfJUl8INU87q5-YkFmkxZh34yM2MSugykbgSikw7KySE9siOZnd1Ms7GyIKs9KTwxXrAPLvpbie7UbPaBt/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-10-23+at+11.17.01+PM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZcD0ke9PgP04Lj22cPj6IGqiqVTxZEVeOIejEZF_mqjtQdL3gwXX6VqckMlhfJUl8INU87q5-YkFmkxZh34yM2MSugykbgSikw7KySE9siOZnd1Ms7GyIKs9KTwxXrAPLvpbie7UbPaBt/s400/Screen+Shot+2016-10-23+at+11.17.01+PM.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jeffrey Dean Morgan as the deadly & caustic Negan on WALKING DEAD</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Jefferey Dean Morgan isn't exactly a replica of Dennis Hopper's ultra-violent and equally sarcastic villain from the unfairly maligned WATERWORLD...<br> <br> But Stuart Wilson, from the Ray Liotta b-movie NO ESCAPE a year before, most certainly seemed like he could have been an inspiration for Hopper's overboard character: And another hands-on dictator who's far more intelligent and underline-classy than his hillbilly followers, Morgan's newest WALKING DEAD villain has proved to both the audience and Rick that he's the real deal: Mostly by using a barbed-wire baseball bat, named after B.B. King's guitar, on one character who many thought was one Alpha Male too many, and another who served as the show's Romeo to an overly sappy Juliet: Like most already know, the brains-bashed duo turned out being Abraham and Glenn...<br>

2016, cable, walking dead, zombie

NEGAN & MAREK: 'NO ESCAPE' FROM 'THE WALKING DEAD'

Jeffrey Dean Morgan as the deadly & caustic Negan on WALKING DEAD Jefferey Dean Morgan isn't exactly a replica of Dennis Hopper...

ARTHOUSE MELANCHOLY OF ANGELINA JOLIE'S BY THE SEA

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYa6AEALrP6PgrStuFIsxUUHA6fhlIetF3QREbxlvZveVUOXZok6g4EW9QRZotdrzwSqgKhUyeFbypBGNnkarxg22xL8zV4H3LoR4CW9_IEI_8bKD7N-naQwx7QpOPSHg6lb8Oya4Io0A/s1600/14457503_192994354463082_6447015987885726392_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYa6AEALrP6PgrStuFIsxUUHA6fhlIetF3QREbxlvZveVUOXZok6g4EW9QRZotdrzwSqgKhUyeFbypBGNnkarxg22xL8zV4H3LoR4CW9_IEI_8bKD7N-naQwx7QpOPSHg6lb8Oya4Io0A/s400/14457503_192994354463082_6447015987885726392_n.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in BY THE SEA Year: 2015</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Those who haven't yet experienced BY THE SEA are probably wondering, <i>Is It Really That Bad... </i>Well to give you a little taste before our big meal – the opening line, spoken in a dull manner by writer and director Angelina Jolie <strike>Pitt</strike> as a depressed wife, upon arriving in the French villa with her husband, is: "I smell fish."<br> <br> Now try to imagine if there was no murder in Alfred Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW – it would be a character-study of a handicapped voyeur, which couldn't go far without an eventual plot: a theme's conveyor belt that <i>motion</i> pictures cannot do without. Shocking, though, is the bizarre fact Jolie's monotone melodrama is somewhat painfully intriguing, thanks especially to a knee-high peephole in the spacious hotel room harboring bitter, lived-in marrieds Angelina and <strike>real life spouse</strike> Brad Pitt for a two-hour run-time that can often seem quite eternal. And yet, this kind of existential arthouse purgatory could have been <i>much</i> longer – others of its kind, with far more experienced, celebrated directors behind the lens, have gone well over three hours, including another Pitt vehicle, Terrance Malick's self-indulgent saga TREE OF LIFE, which SEA is a fun and frolicking rodeo by comparison...<br>

2016, angelina jolie, brad pitt, neo noir, romance

ARTHOUSE MELANCHOLY OF ANGELINA JOLIE'S BY THE SEA

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in BY THE SEA Year: 2015 Those who haven't yet experienced BY THE SEA are probably wondering, Is It Rea...

BELATED NEW HORROR FLICK REVIEW OF: DON'T BREATHE

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSuxYokRg_BYBfjbxvC7vXQbJTymlkTnaj41nHNIFaZBcFRCay3D7rpua6ysbBgJN3_l_O3PUPpWleGL3sYO4Xe7m955rbSnfidB-wGNGLBuze382zvgAg1BNSllOehq6UQDJVq7l0VO8/s1600/dont-breathe-poster-banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSuxYokRg_BYBfjbxvC7vXQbJTymlkTnaj41nHNIFaZBcFRCay3D7rpua6ysbBgJN3_l_O3PUPpWleGL3sYO4Xe7m955rbSnfidB-wGNGLBuze382zvgAg1BNSllOehq6UQDJVq7l0VO8/s400/dont-breathe-poster-banner.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jane Levy on the DON'T BREATHE Poster YEAR: 2016</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> "An impressive performance or achievement that has been accomplished or managed with great skill" is the definition of a term, <i>Tour de force</i>, that, albeit overused in Film Writing, when hybrid with a "special honor or respect shown publicly" i.e. <i>Homage</i>, the new horror flick DON'T BREATHE is a <i>Tour de Homage</i>, and then some...<br> <br> Our first glance at the ruthless antagonist, a blind war veteran played by Stephen Lang (who represented all that Hollywood perceives as evil about the American Military in AVATAR), sitting upon his bed, reaching his muscular arms forward with what seems like frightened vulnerability of a child spooked from an imaginary closet monster – and the ride's about to begin...<br>

2016, exploitation, horror, jane levy, stephen lang, suspense

BELATED NEW HORROR FLICK REVIEW OF: DON'T BREATHE

Jane Levy on the DON'T BREATHE Poster YEAR: 2016 "An impressive performance or achievement that has been accomplished or manage...

BACK TO THE RADICAL EIGHTIES WITH STRANGER THINGS

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4lKmRSH_wGsr8RF7sNfAS5C206GL0ZxJqsx4YCohWTFReKuNyBeI37ENwg0DxgVF14emYmPtpoZdbyFydKUtw_7sDfB9IwLzBAOIR6phDngmiQArZ6FwlM08xAKCvJ1qWWlEe3-QlllI/s1600/stranger-things.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4lKmRSH_wGsr8RF7sNfAS5C206GL0ZxJqsx4YCohWTFReKuNyBeI37ENwg0DxgVF14emYmPtpoZdbyFydKUtw_7sDfB9IwLzBAOIR6phDngmiQArZ6FwlM08xAKCvJ1qWWlEe3-QlllI/s400/stranger-things.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The Magical 80's Aura Owns STRANGER THINGS Year: 2016</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> It's been since LOST that a show used a particularly jolting, ominous sound – like the wisp of a train roaring through a tunnel – each and every time yet another piece of an endless jigsaw puzzle are <i>suddenly</i> revealed...<br> <br> Will be careful with this teaser/review since STRANGER THINGS (made by and shown on Netflix) is one of those shows where spoilers can occur even when hinting at the mere possibility of one: The time is the 1980's with a techno score reminiscent of Tangerine Dream's treatment for RISKY BUSINESS (mentioned in one scene not long before a theater marquee promotes Tom Cruise's followup vehicle ALL THE RIGHT MOVES) – plus there's an assortment of iconic songs, from Corey Hart to The Clash, providing captivating nostalgia to "The Regan Era," which is now what the 50's and 60's were back then: a platform for limitless adventure...<br>

2016, matthew modine, netflix, science-fiction, supernatural, thriller, winona ryder

BACK TO THE RADICAL EIGHTIES WITH STRANGER THINGS

The Magical 80's Aura Owns STRANGER THINGS Year: 2016 It's been since LOST that a show used a particularly jolting, ominous soun...

A THURSDAY NIGHT REVIEW OF STAR TREK BEYOND

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdUx907CsozO9l0Kzg5c6d3eXq0qznQGIQpdYY4VWbWU0o-p099OqciC7tipw1ZUB6qxCJU-PWaYEqACDjpD6yKTS_0YqPTNXY8imn1CWNDvJZ5tZyJU-j8bb7x0-FCIPbZuW9kE62BwM/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-07-21+at+10.43.17+PM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdUx907CsozO9l0Kzg5c6d3eXq0qznQGIQpdYY4VWbWU0o-p099OqciC7tipw1ZUB6qxCJU-PWaYEqACDjpD6yKTS_0YqPTNXY8imn1CWNDvJZ5tZyJU-j8bb7x0-FCIPbZuW9kE62BwM/s400/Screen+Shot+2016-07-21+at+10.43.17+PM.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 2016 Cast: Chris Pine, Karl Urban, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> If anyone else was a bit... taken out of the far future of the STAR TREK universe when the new James T. Kirk, a wayward James Dean style rebel not yet a Starfleet Captain, listened to The Beastie Boys, then there's bad news and good news. First off the song, Sabotage, one of their better tracks and not sounding too hip-hop, is used in an extremely important scene. The good news, for just about everyone, is the song doesn't go to waste – there's perfect reason for it to be played, and loudly.<br /> <br /> STAR TREK BEYOND aka ANOTHER STAR TREK III is the new franchise's way of getting back to basics, so the title is a bit misleading. Finally off on that brutally lonesome five-year mission, our reposeful Captain is suffering the turmoils of being in the far reaches of space – but with an Americanized planet so close by, they don't seem so "out there" (or dare it be described as "far, far away") like the iconic TV series. Speaking of, BEYOND begins with the kind of campy aliens that most adored from the original 1960's television series; yet with so much CGI it's like a millionaire wearing ripped blue jeans. The humor's in the Marvel AVENGERS style, coming at a fast sarcastic tongue-in-cheek pace, usually from the odd couple that made the <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2014/04/original-star-trek-movies.html">Original Cast Movies</a> shine: Spock and Bones. While their reluctant camaraderie works, it's a bit much after a while... As is the villain, who, like Eric Bana's galactic barbarian from the 2009 film, seems like an angry WWF Wrestler seeking world domination using brute strength and half-explained vengeance. But at least, unlike the second venture, he's completely original – and to fit the usually-creative TREK plot-lines, there's a neat twist that ties the whole proverbial room together.<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibu3vSU1VMstRG2zLDLlEK4ra-fevVQnuc_hAxL_sztr8yhsai_K5j_3xIDpK9UGI6z0GJ_vtmUt8A_ZOfd1VlGAEl4qM5-xgDl1h6MMKBgpIjsHbb-4PcXMgh3cEpYgMbjWow4atZ-j8/s1600/2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibu3vSU1VMstRG2zLDLlEK4ra-fevVQnuc_hAxL_sztr8yhsai_K5j_3xIDpK9UGI6z0GJ_vtmUt8A_ZOfd1VlGAEl4qM5-xgDl1h6MMKBgpIjsHbb-4PcXMgh3cEpYgMbjWow4atZ-j8/s200/2.png" width="200" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>TREK-BEYOND Score: ***1/2</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> With tons of action wielding the power of last minute suspense to the hilt, and BEYOND, this is an entertaining movie that never suffers downtime or bouts of tedious exposition. Most of the film takes place on a planet that also resembles the OS (Original Series) Universe, and like those computer generated exterior shots added to that same series so Millennials don't shy away from anything considered too "dated," there's an equal balance of primal-retro nostalgia with modern technology that couldn't work in the Sixties <i>or</i> the post-1977 STAR WARS era, when William Shatner's Kirk and Leonard Nimoy's Spock (the latter <i>alternate universe vulcan</i> mentioned throughout) had their own six movie run, and, in <i>their</i> THIRD FILM, the Enterprise is destroyed while here... well... see for yourself.

2016, franchise, science-fiction

A THURSDAY NIGHT REVIEW OF STAR TREK BEYOND

Year: 2016 Cast: Chris Pine, Karl Urban, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg If anyone else was a bit... taken out of the far future of the STAR ...

FEMALE REBOOT OF GHOSTBUSTERS

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdpJCk7nL_AGLs1O0Qc3W6NS3gh3dLpi2HQpPnrv5mQRTVucvOdwyD_CKzoTqDRv5m1VnxTnTIdo-M7EJzHsrqlpqkPTgTxKk7p4EPYDPUAUoeI5d-9TLB-fPjtVuwvxD6Q_JX5ZHro0Y/s1600/555.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdpJCk7nL_AGLs1O0Qc3W6NS3gh3dLpi2HQpPnrv5mQRTVucvOdwyD_CKzoTqDRv5m1VnxTnTIdo-M7EJzHsrqlpqkPTgTxKk7p4EPYDPUAUoeI5d-9TLB-fPjtVuwvxD6Q_JX5ZHro0Y/s400/555.jpg" width="268"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 2016</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> When word hit the streets Bill Murray would provide a cameo, the anticipated GHOSTBUSTERS reboot, with dolls instead of guys, was rumored to be a sequel – nothing doing. Bill, the sarcastic cool dude who grounds the original, plays another version of "Dickless" here... True fans will get that reference and for newcomers, Bill plays a complete jerk – but he's not <i>the</i> villain, by any means...<br> <br> That title should go to the writers, Katie Dippold and Paul Feig. And yet as director, Feig provides some scary, suspenseful moments, almost as if he really, deep down, wanted to make a bonafide horror flick with a side-dish of comedy. And there are times when the four girl Ghostbusters geek-out with a genuine flow of scientific expository dialogue, especially Melissa McCarthy as Abby, a hybrid of Dan Aykroyd's soulful buried-lead and a cerebral Harold Ramis... Meanwhile, Kristin Wiig has the most to lose, at least at first, about to get tenure at a University while forgetting her Paranormal Research past when it rears back up in a book she previously co-wrote: Uptight and anxious, she's goaded by tomboy Kate McKinnon as Jillian, the token wild card who acts as if we know her character already. In fact, in many ways, Feig's GHOSTBUSTERS seems more like a dull sequel to a first (proverbial) venture that,  like SPY and BRIDESMAIDS, actually worked...<br>

2016, bill murray, comedy, franchise, kristin wiig, melissa mccarthy, paul feig, reboot

FEMALE REBOOT OF GHOSTBUSTERS

Year: 2016 When word hit the streets Bill Murray would provide a cameo, the anticipated GHOSTBUSTERS reboot, with dolls instead of guys,...

OMFG AVOID THE BFG YOU WON'T LYFAO

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjui5B5wKSICZva9dzlv32gRrzFUbweTn948z_5q1a0gShZdA6C92IYORYHOf0u715Qqr_n1ALYK5Ni0vN8_-qaXbySMRGZUm_QiPwYVPuHAFk9wjm48uM0C-KiZZDcxqlsZ001oC_O1aU/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-07-14+at+11.57.00+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjui5B5wKSICZva9dzlv32gRrzFUbweTn948z_5q1a0gShZdA6C92IYORYHOf0u715Qqr_n1ALYK5Ni0vN8_-qaXbySMRGZUm_QiPwYVPuHAFk9wjm48uM0C-KiZZDcxqlsZ001oC_O1aU/s400/Screen+Shot+2016-07-14+at+11.57.00+PM.png" width="400"></a></div> Wherein the last new movie reviewed, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/07/ID42.html">INDEPENDENCE DAY RESURGENCE</a>, had no second act, this catastrophe has no first act: The ball gets rolling before we know why, only who...<br> <br> That being a little girl in an orphanage with an open window peering out into shadowy, cobbled English streets and then a giant who, it turns out, isn't so giant after all, stealing her away to his lair where, living up to his name, Big Friendly Giant, he protects her from the mean and hungry giant-giants outside, in their plush green valley, but what the hell – he kidnapped her in the first place...<br>

2016, steven spielberg

OMFG AVOID THE BFG YOU WON'T LYFAO

Wherein the last new movie reviewed, INDEPENDENCE DAY RESURGENCE , had no second act, this catastrophe has no first act: The ball gets rol...

TARZAN BEGINS AGAIN IN THE LEGEND OF TARZAN

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_vt76aMY8Sg0bxH7Hbh0iuvTcoiNv02S0SXdqwrFHZ8DGNLasYEwJnxB16y_lMJh7rkiiOw7a0uFsA7wIO0yNz4LPRRtZ1-P93w9C1mrryZJf0hJR9osUNKvZ7Qf_0rhkwgkRN7_ux4w/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-07-15+at+12.27.15+AM.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_vt76aMY8Sg0bxH7Hbh0iuvTcoiNv02S0SXdqwrFHZ8DGNLasYEwJnxB16y_lMJh7rkiiOw7a0uFsA7wIO0yNz4LPRRtZ1-P93w9C1mrryZJf0hJR9osUNKvZ7Qf_0rhkwgkRN7_ux4w/s320/Screen+Shot+2016-07-15+at+12.27.15+AM.png" width="320"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sam Jackson watches Tarzan run </u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Edgar Rice Burroughs' second TARZAN novel was THE RETURN OF TARZAN, and while this movie, THE LEGEND OF TARZAN, is in no way inspired by or based upon that particular title, the same template exists: We all know about the Lord of the Jungle and since this is basically a comeback for the iconic character, why not start out with his need to... to quote The Beatles... "Get back to where you once belonged"?<br> <br> But Tarzan, holed up in his British Estate and going by his born name, John Clayton, doesn't quite feel the jungle-fever as much as his wife, Jane, played by the beautiful Margot Robie, who wants her old life in Africa back, and so her persuasiveness has to make up for Alexander Skarsgård's lack of emotion, or any pulse. Along for the ride (and to further help the wooden lead) is a token comic relief in Samuel L. Jackson, working for President Harrison to thwart a possible slave trade going on while speaking in a modern jive that doesn't fit the 1800's...<br>

2016, action, christoph waltz, franchise, margot robie, samuel l. jackson, tarzan

TARZAN BEGINS AGAIN IN THE LEGEND OF TARZAN

Sam Jackson watches Tarzan run Edgar Rice Burroughs' second TARZAN novel was THE RETURN OF TARZAN, and while this movie, THE LEGEND ...

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE FEATURING HUGH JACKMAN

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6CJVFzUB_yveC5jmzBASJCdPkMvExefYQWbddcmL3GidGfLzwkCtpsOEydxfNpzQV4qGgXZwjNaqhtDjcCsSTU04DcfVt4kFg-NHcQTp62SnhNZJO5QG1PV4iyUIf31POEWjzl85dlqo/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-07-15+at+4.20.44+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="383" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6CJVFzUB_yveC5jmzBASJCdPkMvExefYQWbddcmL3GidGfLzwkCtpsOEydxfNpzQV4qGgXZwjNaqhtDjcCsSTU04DcfVt4kFg-NHcQTp62SnhNZJO5QG1PV4iyUIf31POEWjzl85dlqo/s400/Screen+Shot+2016-07-15+at+4.20.44+PM.png" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>THE X-MEN MUPPET BABY FILMS SUSTAIN BREEZILY Year: 2016</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> The vessel has gone full circle. Not only do we begin with a mutant in a public display of fighting, like Wolverine in the first movie, but there's another great music montage scene liken to the last film, where Evan Peters, as Quicksilver, does his thing, befitting the particular era: last <i>time</i> it was Jim Croce in the 70's and "now", set in the techno 80's, The Eurythmics SWEET DREAMS plays as he <i>quickly</i> rescues a bunch of student mutants about to... Spoil the movie, although the title of this latest venture says plenty in what's become the FIRST CLASS cast as the X-MEN are more X-KIDS, not only before they become adults but, like the STAR TREK reboot, in an alternate timeline: the past is in the past and the future is, for the characters we once knew, started over again i.e. recycling.<br>

2016, franchise, hugh jackman, jennifer lawrence

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE FEATURING HUGH JACKMAN

THE X-MEN MUPPET BABY FILMS SUSTAIN BREEZILY Year: 2016 The vessel has gone full circle. Not only do we begin with a mutant in a public ...

REVIEW OF ME BEFORE YOU STARRING EMILIA CLARKE

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhxfMABhso5sMv-K9D0of_NK2I-1JzmLqT5hkTbzHIetTeoo-tB7aYi33Q6uqkqmtRuhNMFQwENZCLrRluYikfLyB-IyCiQ9rZdBjrhM2uiiilxhLmUWWWHxnJf7tg043XaDmN14iRvLo/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-06-08+at+9.54.51+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhxfMABhso5sMv-K9D0of_NK2I-1JzmLqT5hkTbzHIetTeoo-tB7aYi33Q6uqkqmtRuhNMFQwENZCLrRluYikfLyB-IyCiQ9rZdBjrhM2uiiilxhLmUWWWHxnJf7tg043XaDmN14iRvLo/s640/Screen+Shot+2016-06-08+at+9.54.51+AM.png" width="209"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Year: 2016</td></tr> </tbody></table> A hybrid of EDUCATING RITA, in which a short, spunky, awkward working class girl perks up the life of a stuffy, brainy and contented University Professor; PRETTY WOMAN where "the hooker next door" shows a corporate raider a thing or two about relaxation; and LOVE STORY involving two young people falling in love and one isn't so lucky. And yet, ME BEFORE YOU is, for the most part, a one person show...<br> <br> That being Emilia Clarke as Lou, who dresses to the beat of her own crazy, offbeat fashion and, living in a working class home, really needs a job and finds a good one at a family's castle estate where an extremely rich couple's son is a paraplegic. Much of the first half plays out like many a film of this ilk: it takes the special kind of personality to make a grouchy guy finally melt to the extreme cuteness of the girl, and in this case she goes a bit overboard with facial expressions that scream out "Adore Me" with every curve of her radiant face, lovely thick lips and distinguished eyebrows. Bottom line, she's cute as a button... A lot of buttons, actually, with a few extras to boot. <br> <br> But for the sake of popularity, she doesn't hold a candle to our handsome leading man, once a famous playboy type who, like Richard Gere in that PRETTY chick flick, bought and sold companies before the accident. His grim perspective isn't only because of his horrific condition, but since he had lived such a great life previously, like no one on earth except maybe George Clooney or Hugh Hefner, the bed and wheelchair existence just doesn't cut it... No matter how much his new girl-friend tries, it seems like he wants to take part in... well:<br> <br> Now that's where ME BEFORE YOU hits a giant wall, and by the end, unlike the tragic tear-jerking of LOVE STORY or DYING YOUNG or any Big Screen Disease Soap you choose, the audience is left with more of a cerebral discussion of "Was that the right thing for him to do?" rather than, "Wow, that was so lovely and moving!" which 'date movies' usually provoke. When the second act rounds to third, as their relationship <i>seems</i> to grow stronger, we merge into the morality issue climax where Sam Claflin's Will Traynor becomes a character very hard to feel sorry for, especially since so many are in his condition who want to live and DON'T have castles and Sunny Bunny nurses (meanwhile, he puts his parents through a slow, torturous ringer). Making this another of many recent vehicles that use an otherwise involving and ultimately misleading story to lead to an agenda/statement that provides a reason for the story to exist at all. In the old days, this was called being "taken for a ride." And for a ride, it's not too shabby. But for a romance, it lacks the necessary magic needed to work as a whole. <br>

2016, emilia clarke, romance

REVIEW OF ME BEFORE YOU STARRING EMILIA CLARKE

Year: 2016 A hybrid of EDUCATING RITA, in which a short, spunky, awkward working class girl perks up the life of a stuffy, brainy and co...

MOST UNDERRATED FILMS OF 2015 BY MARK SULLIVAN

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4GdgDgEmPbmyR39P5YVlAf32kxjxBgWUYTC2s_LlxKlnLfjQRoiyiMnJCfpl-AlGiTHaGzg76pYjQlQK9kDU4RZHh4_IVEJI7T92w0ggIrlSXfZ-_6zBhOLaCUuD0t0G2KBVFBaM0wRA/s1600/LegendFB_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4GdgDgEmPbmyR39P5YVlAf32kxjxBgWUYTC2s_LlxKlnLfjQRoiyiMnJCfpl-AlGiTHaGzg76pYjQlQK9kDU4RZHh4_IVEJI7T92w0ggIrlSXfZ-_6zBhOLaCUuD0t0G2KBVFBaM0wRA/s640/LegendFB_1.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tom Hardy plays both Kray brothers in LEGEND in an article by guest contributor<b> Mark Sullivan</b></u></td></tr> </tbody></table>

2016, chris hemsworth, contributors, kurt russell, list, ron howard, tom hardy

MOST UNDERRATED FILMS OF 2015 BY MARK SULLIVAN

Tom Hardy plays both Kray brothers in LEGEND in an article by guest contributor Mark Sullivan

RUSSELL CROWE & RYAN GOSLING IN 'THE NICE GUYS'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTUr5WdBQR5YAs4MzMRYpZiNlHoJ4IM7fm2GaXoMiDz-nxZbj0w-mryyWJst1xXVJAen3PJlmwFqORZcFg5synig4AI78vpVrefoGPDx-HD9_ggZXRwznNZAsy2FshHNs5SV1XlUfSBBc/s1600/maxresdefault-1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTUr5WdBQR5YAs4MzMRYpZiNlHoJ4IM7fm2GaXoMiDz-nxZbj0w-mryyWJst1xXVJAen3PJlmwFqORZcFg5synig4AI78vpVrefoGPDx-HD9_ggZXRwznNZAsy2FshHNs5SV1XlUfSBBc/s1600/maxresdefault-1.jpg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nice 1970's Neon Font for Shane Black's NICE GUYS with Russell Crowe & Ryan Gosling Year: 2016</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> It makes complete sense that the man who created LETHAL WEAPON, in further doing his Quentin Tarantino spin on the "two polar opposites teaming up" that worked in his <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/08/KKBB.html">KISS KISS BANG BANG</a>, would fall into the hands of the action-packed finale liken more to his own (old) thing than Tarantino's. And by the time these NICE GUYS try to groove, they're already nearing the end...<br>

2016, action, buddy, crime, dark comedy, genre tarantino, gumshoe, neo noir, russell crowe, ryan gosling, shane black

RUSSELL CROWE & RYAN GOSLING IN 'THE NICE GUYS'

Nice 1970's Neon Font for Shane Black's NICE GUYS with Russell Crowe & Ryan Gosling Year: 2016 It makes complete sense that ...