In 1993, the original Jurassic Park wowed moviegoers with on-screen dinosaurs the likes of which had never been seen before. Animals that hadn’t walked the Earth for millions of years were (seemingly) alive and terrorizing the cast. The film packed theaters and sold a lot of popcorn. I actually went to seeContinue Reading
Last summer’s abysmal The Mummy Returns introduced audiences to the character of the Scorpion King. In that film, he was a villain. Not really a willing villain, but a villain nonetheless. One of my main problems with that earlier film was that the Scorpion King wasn’t given much screen time.Continue Reading
The second episode in George Lucas’ Star Wars franchise furthers the tale of Anakin Skywalker’s journey towards the Dark Side of the Force. Picking up ten years after Episode I – The Phantom Menace, we find that the former Queen Amidala (Natalie Portman) is now a Senator. An assassination attemptContinue Reading
This year’s big comic book film has finally arrived. With these types of films, there are usually two types of film-goers. There are the dyed-in-the-wool comic fans who will never be happy because of something that’s not exactly as they envisioned it. Then there’s the rest of us, who goContinue Reading
In 1764, the French region of Gevaudan was terrorized by a “Beast” that hunted women and children. This beast was intelligent enough to fear the men who would attempt to kill it. However, the women and children who wandered into the countryside alone were seemingly never spared its wrath. ThisContinue Reading
Jet Li, along with Jackie Chan, is probably responsible for the death of the American action hero genre. While the latest movies with Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger flounder at the box office, Jet Li and Jackie Chan continue to succeed. While Li and Chan’s movies might not be anyContinue Reading
1999’s The Mummy was one of the more pleasant summer films to come along in quite some time. It took an old film — the original 1932 Universal horror movie, The Mummy — and updated it for a new generation of filmgoers without ruining the concept or disrespecting the originalContinue Reading