Articles by Michael Pflug
Shallow Hal
As a Farrelly brothers film you can rest assured that "Shallow Hal" is infused with a very bent sense of humor. What may come as a bit of a shock is that the film is actually fairly sweet and seldom drops to the same level of gross-out humor as [...]
Grave Of The Fireflies
Why is it that the vast majority of adult American filmgoers continue to look down upon animated feature films as being just for kids? As a lifelong fan of animation I’ve never quite understood this bias. Fortunately not all cultures share this disdain [...]
Pretty In Pink
To my generation the frequent collaborations in the 1980s between writer/director John Hughes and actress Molly Ringwald were our cultural touchstones. "Sixteen Candles, " "The Breakfast Club, " and "Pretty in Pink" formed [...]
The Rambo Trilogy
If, like me, you survived the 1980s then Sylvester Stallone’s John Rambo is more than just another big-screen action hero to you. With his rugged visage co-opted by such disparate organizations as Vietnam veteran groups and the Republican Party, Rambo [...]
A Beautiful Mind
Ron Howard gets no respect. There, I’ve said it. A perpetual whipping-boy among snobby film critics, Howard is often taken to task for being a "studio man," the kiss of death for those expecting every great film director to be an auteur. Well [...]
Reflections Of Evil
’Reflections of Evil’ is a film by Damon Packard. Who’s he you ask? Well, I’m not really all that sure. After countless minutes spent Googling myself senseless, I was still unable to uncover much pertinent information. And if you find that you [...]
