With a movie like "The Expendables, " you simply can't go wrong. The concept is sheer brilliance on Sylvester Stallone's part, showing once again that there is so much more brains to his brawn than one might expect. Bringing together [...]
Anybody who knows me can tell you that action movies are typically lower on my must see list. Given my love for action sub genres (horror, sci-fi, etc) one would think this a bit of an odd quirk. It's not that I don't like them; I am just rarely [...]
Celebrating the movie's 25th anniversary, Warner Home Video has just released a beautiful Blu-Ray version of "The Goonies, " bringing this awesomely inspired adventure film to high definition for the first time. Written by Steven Spielberg [...]
Based on James Fenimore Cooper's classic novels from the "Leatherstocking" series, director Michael Mann took the second book in the quintology as the source for his epic adventure movie, "The Last Of The Mohicans" to turn it into [...]
Humphrey Bogart was the epitome of the classic tough-as-nails gumshoe. In many of his films, his characters became iconic portrayals of heroes and unlikely-heroes alike, as he conquered the world with his films and created memorably movie history. Many of [...]
Blockbuster summer movies have become synonymous with overblown special effects orgies in which there is typically little room for story and character development, as more and more action seems to have to take place on the screen at any one time. Many of [...]
The Hughes Brothers' movie "The Book of Eli" did not really stir up much of an interest in me when I saw theatrical trailers some time back. While the post-apocalyptic theme does have its appeal, for some reason someone was missing from the [...]
As the latest film in the franchise is making it to theaters, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has created a new Blu-Ray version of the original "Predator," trying to remind everyone how cool the original movie, really was. It's been a [...]
Most people would probably refer to "Flash Gordon: Saviour Of The Universe" as a guilty pleasure, but not me. I love the film and I'm proud of it. It is a true comic book fantasy springing to life and one of the most colorful retro-films [...]
Starting in the early 60s, a film genre manifested itself in Italy that is since known as "Spaghetti Westerns". One of the superstars to come out of this genre is Clint Eastwood, the nameless star in a number of Sergio Leone's films. After [...]
