If you’ve seen the 1984 mockumentary This is Spinal Tap, you may think that the recent ad campaign for Anvil! The Story of Anvil is an attempt to market a similar movie. Despite the fact that there are many similarities between the two films, Anvil is a real band andContinue Reading
Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was one of professional wrestling’s biggest superstars in the 1980s, performing in huge arenas, featured in video games, and even turned into an action figure. Now, however, he works part-time at a grocery store during the week and wrestles in half-empty New Jersey highContinue Reading
Watchmen takes place in an alternate 1985. In this universe, President Nixon has been re-elected beyond the two terms he served in our universe. Also, the Vietnam War was won by the United States. Russia and the United States teeter on the brink of nuclear war. And superheroes have beenContinue Reading
When Halloween was released in 1978, there was no such thing as the modern “slasher movie.” Some may argue that 1974’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre deserves some credit but it was undoubtedly Halloween that jump started the genre into overdrive. And while it may seem tame today when compared against theContinue Reading
“I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I’m all out of bubblegum,” says Nada (Roddy Piper), after discovering that the Earth has come under the control of aliens in John Carpenter’s They Live, which is at once a science fiction tale, a comedy, and a commentaryContinue Reading
As many older film series have been “rebooted” in the last few years to appeal to a younger audience, it was inevitable that there would come a time to reboot the James Bond series. In 2006, that time came. With the Bond character becoming somewhat creaky in light of on-screenContinue Reading
As I write this, it’s just been announced that The Dark Knight has broken the box office record for an opening weekend by taking in $155 million dollars. I am assuming that a lot of the interest in the film is due to the death of Heath Ledger and theContinue Reading