When you have been reviewing movies as long as I have (over a decade), you tend to get worn out. Most films leave you going ‘meh’ and if it doesn’t have “Star Wars” in the title, or “Marvel” before the title I tend to not get very excited for much these days. So when I […]
Of the 40 some-odd films that have been made from the stories of author Stephen King, I would say that only just over a dozen are really good to great films. So that leaves quite a bit that can be re-imagined and made for modern audiences. With the seemingly endless amount of mixed bag of […]
I’ll admit, director Tobe Hooper fell off my radar in the mid-80’s. The films he made were not great, but watchable for the time like “Lifeforce”, “Invaders From Mars”, and “Body Bags”. I did see his name pop up on TV throughout the years on “Amazing Stories”, “Freddy’s Nightmares”, “Tales from the Crypt”, even on […]
The Empire Strikes Back- “The Jedi master who instructed me.” My first memory of seeing Star Wars on the big screen was not “A New Hope”, (called just Star Wars then) though my parents did take the 2 year-old me I have no memory of seeing it. It was Empire that made its first impression […]