2004’s Hellboy was a well-received if unspectacular performer at the box office, and the studios were not in a hurry to spend on another one. Undeterred, Guillermo Del Toro pressed on pitching various...

Tenacious is the first word that comes to mind when thinking of Sylvester Stallone . He was once one of the highest-paid and most successful actors in cinema’s history, and, like most, has had his fai...

There are touchstone pictures that transcend any generation, no matter when they were born, that fall under the MUST WATCH category. They are masterpieces. Films like Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon,...

The Bourne series is currently five films in (as of the writing of this article) and had definitively made its mark in the action/spy genre. In a perfect storm of confluences, it hit its mark with an...

Misery is just about this reviewer’s favorite Stephen King adaptation. Its director, Rob Reiner , was the only one entrusted with that adaptation because the author knew the director would adapt it we...

The first time I heard the name Mike Mignola was after I received a set of his Topps comic adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula . As a lifelong comic reader, I’m ashamed to say I’d missed his...

I don’t cry in movies. It’s just not my way. But I have to confess that twenty years ago, upon sitting down to watch Steven Speilberg ’s World War II magnum opus, the recreation of the Normandy invasi...

Pixar never cease to surprise me. On the sole summary of one of their stories, I almost never get a sense of just how much I may fall in love with whatever they’re dishing out. Toy Story, The Incredib...

Although this isn’t the first of Disney ’s attempts to redo their animated back catalogue, I think it had the hardest job. The mastery of motion capture technology and the sophistication that computer...

For a very long time, I wished that First Blood had been a one and done deal. But it arrived in the 1982, and anything from the 80s onward that made the studios money would like get a sequel with a ro...

Three years would pass before another go around with John Rambo and produce the most (at the time) violent action movie ever made. It marked a continued tonal shift of the character that had good inte...

If the last couple of years have taught us anything it should be never underestimate Sylvester Stallone . He was mocked at the beginning of his career and brought us Rocky . His popularity waned in th...

‘It’s a mad house! A mad house!’ So it felt to me finding the entire Planet of the Apes cinematic journey in this new mammoth sized 50th anniversary set in the mail. I’ll try to keep the review succin...

We are so spoiled for choice in this day and age that sometimes brilliance and gold that should never be missed can get left in the wake of unending wave of stuff. In a world of remakes, amazing movie...

The Shining is a revered story the world over, both in film and literature. Stanley Kubrick ’s movie infamously didn’t pass muster with author Stephen King back in 1980, so the author decided to make...