After what fans considered a blasphemous disaster about three years ago, Toho’s most infamous kaiju is back on the screen in his 23rd movie. "Godzilla 2000" is the title of the latest film featuring the Japanese behemoth with the radioactive [...]
’The Time Machine’ is producer/director George Pal’s cinematic interpretation of H.G. Wells’s classic tale of time travel. While Pal’s production departs from Wells’s storyline in many places, it remains true in spirit to the original and has [...]
In the past, I’ve discussed the phenomenon of "cultural baggage" and how it can be hard to approach a movie without certain pre-conceived notions. As a life-long fans of the "X-Men" comics, I approached the "X-Men" movie [...]
It’s always exciting to see a filmmaker really come into their own and with "Pitch Black", writer/director David Twohy achieves that point. After having worked as a writer on good films such as "The Fugitive" and bad films such as [...]
"Frequency, " the name is rather non-descript for a movie that is filled elements that create such a racy experience that it does. Filled with elements of time travel, taking it a bit into science fiction territory, "Frequency" is [...]
To mangle the great English poet Alexander Pope, sometimes sequels rush in where originals have already tread. For every "Bride of Frankenstein," "Godfather Part II" or "Empire Strikes Back," there are those continuations [...]
When recent films such as "The Matrix" deal with technology, we’re typically talking about special effects wizardry that’s going on behind the scenes. The result is astounding movie magic that usually serves no purpose in everyday life. [...]
Remember when you could see two movies for the price of one? When going to the movies meant all day or all night affairs? To inaugurate their new "Fox Double Feature" DVD collection, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment happened to select two of [...]
Since the inception of DVD there was one film that was most anticipated. It was initially rumored to become one of the early DVD releases, but soon disappeared form all schedules and release plans. Fast forward three years! The DVD version of "Men In [...]
There was a time once, when our perspective of the future included robots. Real robots, with a lot of mechanics, hydraulics and small electronic brains. Judging from Michael Crichton’s "Runaway," this time hasn’t been too long ago. Today no [...]
