Our on-going series of in-depth retrospective reviews of classic films.
A welcome to the Jungle for a new action hero. With a few hundred channels and countless DVDs/Blu Rays to watch I recently found myself channel hopping having decided I… Continue reading "A look back at The Rundown (2003)."
A long time ago during those first flourishes of cinephilia that would consume my life, I made it my duty to watch as many films as I could. I wanted… Continue reading "Rashomon (1950) – Akira Kurosawa & the language of Japanese Cinema."
“That woman deserves her revenge and… we deserve to die.” In the first half of Quentin Tarantino’s rip roaring tale of revenge we saw Uma Thurman’s character of The Bride… Continue reading "Quentin Tarantino’s first 25 years, Part 5 – Kill Bill: Vol 2 (2004)."
Christopher Nolan was an independent filmmaker with one low to mid-budget studio film to his name when he made his pitch to take on the Batman reboot at Warner Bros.… Continue reading "From Beginning to End – The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005-2012)."
“Revenge is a dish best served cold.” – Ancient Klingon Proverb The quote that opens Quentin Tarantino’s fourth feature film, Kill Bill Vol. 1 is taken from Star Trek II: The… Continue reading "Quentin Tarantino’s first 25 years, Part 4 – Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)."
1950s Japan was a very fertile period in time for movies with some of the greatest, most artistic films ever made being released. It was a time of Kurosawa, Ozu, Mifune, Honda and Mizoguchi, filmmakers… Continue reading "Seven Samurai (1954) – Kurosawa’s Beautiful Action Epic."
5 years and two films into his directing career Quentin Tarantino unleashed his third feature film upon salivating audiences. His first incendiary film Reservoir Dogs exploded onto screens in 1992… Continue reading "Quentin Tarantino’s first 25 Years, Part 3 – Jackie Brown (1997)."
Occasionally I’m required, and sometimes just compelled, to write about movies that are so iconic and so engrained in popular culture that it’s difficult to know how best to… Continue reading "Quentin Tarantino’s first 25 Years, Part 2 – Pulp Fiction (1994)."
Getting Back To Work, Reservoir Dogs 25 Years On. *** CONTAINS SPOILERS *** For a quarter of a century Quentin Tarantino has been making and reaffirming his mark on the… Continue reading "Quentin Tarantino’s first 25 Years, Part 1 – Reservoir Dogs (1992)."
In 1987 Orion Pictures produced a movie based on a script by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner that had been bandied about and passed up on by several big… Continue reading "RoboCop (1987) – Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of a Sci-Fi Classic."
