Starship Troopers has officially turned 25 years old. Paul Verhoeven’s film is an action-packed sci-fi film about class, citizenship, and duty. It’s also just a fun action movie that has had audiences by the throat since 1997. There’s a certain […]
The following is part of a series of reviews of the Predator films leading up to the release of Prey. Predator is a franchise full of false starts. After the John McTiernan classic, the series moved to the city with […]
In preparation for Prey, we’re returning to cover the full franchise, today we are covering Predator 2 (1990). Predator established dominance in 1987. The film franchise would do what no other action franchise was doing when they released their sequel. Instead […]
In preparation for Prey, we’re returning to cover the full franchise starting today with Predator (1987). It’s always strange to come to a decades-old film for the first time. You can recognize some of the traits that more recent films picked up […]
In preparation for the worldwide debut of Top Gun: Maverick, we’re taking a look back at the film that started it all: Top Gun. Growing up, I wanted nothing more than to be a fighter pilot in the Navy. My grandad and […]
One of the best experiences is going into a movie blind and realizing that what you are watching is a masterpiece. This was my experience with Robert Altman’s incredible adaptation of Ed Graczyk’s play Come Back to the Five & […]
The Purge franchise began with 2013’s The Purge, but it was by no means a promising start. Among other things, it didn’t encompass the full ideology of the purge. Thankfully, there was 2014’s The Purge: Anarchy, a film that showed […]
I do not particularly care for 2013’s The Purge. In fact, it is arguably one of the most inert genre movies of the last ten years. It may have a hell of a hook, but it does virtually nothing to […]
Once upon a time… No, there was once a time that I could spend whole hours of summer coolness in a daydream. For every child knows the secrets of shut-eye, the private going-ons of a world as beautiful as the […]
The earliest works of an artist have always had my fascination. These projects show in broad strokes what set the artist on their path to creation in a raw, unfiltered way. An artist’s first projects are always rough around the […]
