Tom Cruise has been in the press a lot lately spouting off about all sorts of things he apparently feels are important. While I don’t agree with his personal ideology, I realize that he’s an actor and, as an actor, he plays characters. I can separate the man from theContinue Reading
What would happen if some of the most interesting literary characters of the 19th Century united to form a sort of pre-Justice League crime-fighting unit? The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a film loosely based on the graphic novel of the same name, gives us the answer: there would be aContinue Reading
As I bought some goodies at the concession stand before seeing Batman Begins, the clerk asked me if I was a fan of the Batman comics or the movies. When I replied “the comics,” he asked if that was Frank Miller’s version of Batman or before. I said, “Much earlier,Continue Reading
The movie that every Star Wars fan has been waiting for has finally arrived. While the first two prequel films either failed to live up to the hype or got too wrapped up in the political trappings of the Star Wars universe, Episode III – Revenge of the Sith isContinue Reading
Director John Woo has been responsible for some incredible action films, including Hard Boiled, The Killer and his second American film, Broken Arrow. His trademark Mexican standoffs (two characters pointing guns at one another) and wild and imaginative fight sequences have won him a good deal of respect among criticsContinue Reading
FBI agent Stanley Lloyd (Woody Harrelson) is so tired of being bested by a jewel thief couple, Max (Pierce Brosnan) and Lola (Salma Hayek), that he tracks them down to their retirement island paradise convinced that they’re up to something. It just so happens that a cruise ship carrying aContinue Reading
Comic book writer Frank Miller had such a bad experience with Hollywood in 1990 when producers butchered his script for RoboCop 2 that he swore he’d never work with movies again. However, Robert Rodriguez did a short film based on one of Miller’s “Sin City” stories that so impressed MillerContinue Reading