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They came out fairly close together, and both tackle the subject of synthetic realities, simulations in which a society of people are living without being away of their situation. One takes the techno-futurist route — The Matrix (1999), and the other takes a more surrealistic sci-fi approach, and made way less money — Dark City (1998). But the latter did become a cult favorite. But how much does The Matrix owe to Dark City, and wha...
Two of Paul Verhoeven's most revered films of the 1990s, Total Recall (1990) and RoboCop (1987), got horrible, shitty, utterly forgettable remakes in the 2010s. But can we learn something more about these beloved originals by examining some of the many ways in which the remakes absolutely sucked? We're gonna find out.
It was a thing, for a while. Back in the ol' 1990s. Filmmakers got so turgid with the cheapo possibilities of early CG that they went mad and made a spate of giant killer animal movies. Giant gorillas, giant alligators in misnamed features, giant snakes vs. JLo...and so many, many more.
He was one of the biggest movie stars of the 80s and 90s, and the roles he played have left a lasting impact on movies and the people who grew up with them. From playing Madmartigan in Willow and outshining Tom Cruise as Iceman in Top Gun, to resurrecting Jim Morrison and hunting lions with Michael Douglas, we take a tour through the career of the recently passed and much missed Val Kilmer.
Every once in a while, buying an old movie with a great cast and an intriguing plot pays off, even if you've never heard of it before. Shoot To Kill (1988) is an action/adventure/mystery/crime/survival flick starring Tom Berenger, Kirstie Alley, Clancy Brown and the legendary Sydney Poitier, who starred in this film after taking a hiatus from acting for several years. The movie shifts tone a little too much, especially toward the e...
They're not real bands, but their songs are real, and they kinda sorta performed them. Some of their songs even made it to the radio and into the cultural fabric. These are your favorite fictional bands from your favorite music movies from the Blues Brothers and Eddie and the Cruisers to Spinal Tap and The One-ders. If only they can escape the death monkeys that haunt their dreams....
From the old TV movie Trial of the Incredible Hulk to the Ben Afleck CG bombfest to the current Man Without Fear, Charlie Cox, the superhero Daredevil has had a strange presence on the screen over the past 40 years. We take a look at the good things that have been done with the character, and we'l lalso talk about the playground fight, Colin Farrel, and everything else that made the 2003 movie outing so painful.
What happens when you take an aging hair metal frontman who can't act, cover him with fake tattoos and piercings in 1998, put him in a violently low-budget horror movie, and feed him some of the worst dialog ever written? You get Strangeland, a Seven wannabe that hits on all the most important concerns parents of teens have today: chat rooms, body modification, and serial killers.
It's another case of two movies with extremely similar plots being made right on each others heels in the 1999, but in completely different ways. Marvel at Bruce Willis' weird hairpiece, at how damaged the young Haley Joel Osment appears, watch Kevin Bacon dig a big goddamn hole in his yard while his creepy kid is played by an actor nobody remembers as you yell at the TV, it's "Paint It Black! How does a guitarist not recognize Pai...
A remake/reboot of the somewhat bizarre, Queen-scored, yet wonderfully endearing 1980s fantasy flick Highlander is apparently on its way, for real this time. The original really shouldn't have work, NONE of the sequels worked, and the TV show spinoff had a rabid, but small fanbase. But Henry Cavill is — most likely — starring in a remake of the OG film and stepping into Christopher Lambert's sneakers and trench coat as Connor McClo...
Look, it was a really good run — 27 movies over seven decades is nothing to sneer at. But as producers of the James Bond films quest once again to find a new actor to step into the 007 tux, one must ask the question: In the 2020s, do we really need a new Bond? Must the epic series continue, or should Bond be allowed to retire into the desert forever? Well, we all know that as long as someone can make some money off yet another Bond...
Ah the cinematic experience that was Wolf Man (2025) — we waited months and months through delay after delay for a werewolf movie that...wasn't actually a werewolf movie because it had a similar but really different monster, but it was also trying to be a cabin-in-the-woods movie, and a boring one, yet it was called Wolf Man despite being about neither a werewolf nor Lawrence Talbot. Fuck. And then there was the extraordinarily cre...
The movies in the 80s — horror movies, family movies, movies about talking pets, and cartoons about talking dinosaurs — they were all somehow incredibly, hauntingly dark as shit. Here are some of the movies from our childhood that left a dent, a scar, a mangled bit of psyche in their wake. Do we have any in common?
It's 1997. You pop a VHS that contains from-cable-recorded copies of Glimmer Man, Fire Down Below, and On Deadly Ground and watch them in succession until you can't take any more horrendous dialog and fake New York accents...or berets and sleeveless cardigans.
You switch the input back to TV, and after the screen flickers blue for a moment, and then you're 10 minutes into a Columbo TV movie special, so you don't know who did it jus...
There are some actors who were big bright shooting stars, gleaming for a couple years and then gone. Then, there are some actors whose faces we have literally been looking at on screen for our entire lives. Nic Cage is one of those screaming, crying, wacky faces. We take a thorough look at the high notes and some of the lesser known notes of his long, nepotism-launched career.
At one point, a young Leonardo DiCaprio was in consideration to play Patrick Bateman in American Psycho (2000), the surprisingly excellent adaptation of a horribly difficult book to adapt with the same title by Brett Easton Ellis. The role of Bateman, of course, went to Christian Bale.
Now, as news circulates that we may be getting a new adaptation of the novel about yuppie madness in 1980s New York City with Austin Butler stepping...
Martin Scorsese has directed a lot of hits, and a few downright classics, but there are also a few semi-forgotten gems in his filmography, the best of which is The Color of Money (1986). It was a weird move for the already accomplished director: a movie about pool hustlers starring an aging Paul Newman and a up-and-coming Tom Cruise and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio that's actually a long-delayed sequel to a film Newman starred in ba...
There's yet another reinvention of the Man of Steel on the horizon with James Gunn's forthcoming Superman (2025), so we're taking a look back and the film's we've gotten so far, and imagining the ones we haven't. If we had the talent to do it ourselves, or at least the power to order talented people to do our bidding, what would be our perfect Superman movie? Dave, Tom, and Vinnie sound off.
It's an odd genre of movies — Christmas movies. They are dramas, romances, horror, action, and some of the most saccharine sap you'll ever come across, but they're all Christmas movies. So, what exactly makes a movie a "Christmas movie" and where do we draw the line? And, of course, we run down our all time favorite Christmas movies — and we get into a more niche category: Holiday Movies.
They're both ridiculous buddy cop team-up movies from the 1980s and 1990s, but of very different star caliber and budget. Tango & Cash (1989) saw Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell join forces as two LAPD super cops who are framed by Jack Palance's crime boss, who has a weird thing for mice and CCTV monitors. Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) sees post-Rocky IV Dolph Lundgren team up with Brandon Lee in one of his first film rol...
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