At the last minute, I hopped on this limited-time-only sale from the great Warner Archive service, which makes older movies available to order. It’s a great, fun way to catch up on (or discover) titles which fall outside of the quote-unquote canon. I’ve got a growing stack of Warner Archive titles, and that [...]
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Happy Thoughts: My May 2012 @WarnerArchive Order.
Posted: May 20, 2012 in Action., Awesomeness, Badass Old Guys, Guns, Movies (F), Movies (H), Movies (S), Movies (V), Posters, Pretty Girls, Raquel Welch, Walter Hill2
Live on @Twitter: DARK TIDE (2012).
Posted: May 10, 2012 in Boobs, Live On @Twitter, Movies (D), Pretty Girls, SharksLeave your high-concepts on your smartphones, eggheads: All you really have to do to arch my eyebrows is to combine the phrases “great white sharks” and “Halle Berry” into the same sentence. Dark Tide is the newest movie from star Halle Berry and director John Stockwell, and it’s not great news for either of them [...]
My Top 50 Movies Of All Time (At This Exact Point In Time.)
Posted: March 21, 2012 in Skeletons., Werewolves, Pretty Girls, Ninjas, Aliens, Clint, Westerns, Bill Murray, Awesomeness, Michael Mann, Lee Marvin, Movies (A), Movies (C), Movies (E), Movies (F), Movies (G), Movies (H), Movies (I), Movies (K), Movies (M), Movies (N), Movies (O), Movies (P), Movies (Q), Movies (R), Movies (T), Movies (U), Movies (W), Monsters, Sharks, Claudia Cardinale, Apes, Badass Old Guys, Violence, John Belushi, John Landis, Alligators, Pooping, Wolves, John Carpenter, Winter, Robert Forster, Raquel Welch, Pam Grier, Answer TracksI probably should be doing about 50 other things at this very moment, but I saw this great top-50 list today and was inspired it to immediately answer it. I made my list very, very quickly, so in plenty of ways it’s the most honest form a list like this could ever arrive in. While the numbering is fairly [...]
From The Archives: PUBLIC ENEMIES (2009).
Posted: February 5, 2012 in Action., Badass Old Guys, Crime, Guns, History, Michael Mann, Movies (P), Pretty Girls, RomanceToday is Michael Mann’s birthday. I celebrate by re-watching (and re-posting) my initial thoughts about his most recent, and apparently most controversial, feature film. The following is what I wrote about Public Enemies on July 3rd, 2009. Public Enemies, I still maintain, has plenty to recommend it, but its unconventionality makes it a point of debate. [...]
31 FLAVORS OF HORROR #23: NIGHT OF THE CREEPS (1986).
Posted: October 27, 2011 in 31 Flavors Of Horror, Aliens, Awesomeness, Badass Old Guys, Boobs, Cult Classics, Horror, Movies (N), Pretty Girls, Sci-Fi, ZombiesSpeaking of Attack The Block, here’s one of its spiritual ancestors. Night Of The Creeps is one of those everything movies. It’s a monster drink, a mix of everything kids and grown-ups alike love so much about genre movies. This is a movie that seems to answer that question: “If you got your chance to [...]
31 FLAVORS OF HORROR #20: CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954).
Posted: October 24, 2011 in 31 Flavors Of Horror, Boats, Classics, Clint, Dinosaurs, Monsters, Movies (C), Pretty Girls, Sci-FiThe Creature From The Black Lagoon is the last of the major Universal monsters. Creature From The Black Lagoon was released in 1954, over twenty years after Universal introduced Frankenstein’s Monster, his Bride, the Mummy, the Invisble Man, and Count Dracula, and over ten years later than the Wolf Man (longer if you count the [...]
31 FLAVORS OF HORROR #9: ANTS (1977).
Posted: October 10, 2011 in 31 Flavors Of Horror, Awfulness, Bugs, Pretty GirlsAnts is a movie from 1977 that is not to be confused with Empire Of The Ants from the same year, because that kind of a mistake would be just terrible to make, of course. It’s hard to believe that one year could see the release of two separate movies about an invasion of [...]
The Mickey Rourke Archive: KILLSHOT (2008).
Posted: September 28, 2011 in Action., Badass Old Guys, Cars, Crime, Movies (K), Pretty Girls, The Mickey Rourke ArchiveOriginally posted on 6-15-2009, this is a column I hope to resurrect one day soon. By the time The Wrestler was released last year, my Netflix queue became scattered with random Mickey Rourke films of yesteryear. I’ve always liked Mickey Rourke, and his filmography is a pretty damn interesting place to wander around. [...]
From The Archives: MIAMI VICE (2006).
Posted: September 11, 2011 in Action., Boats, Cars, Crime, Explosions, Miami, Michael Mann, Movies (M), Music, Pretty Girls, Reality, Romance, Truth#10. Miami Vice (2006) I’m sure that there are people who will roll their eyes or sneer at my inclusion of Michael Mann’s Miami Vice feature in my top ten of the entire decade, but that’s fine. I never started compiling this list with the intention of sounding smarter or cooler than anyone else. These [...]
From The Archives: KISS KISS BANG BANG (2005).
Posted: September 11, 2011 in Action., Comedy, Film Noir, Los Angeles, Movies (K), New York, Pretty Girls#7. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) This is the last of the great Los Angeles movies on my list, from a guy who knows a fair amount about Los Angeles. Shane Black had a hand in the writing of many of the action films of my youth – Predator, Lethal Weapon, The Monster Squad, The [...]
