Christopher Symonds

I’ll start this review with a question. 4K has been out for a few years now, and although this reviewer has only recently dipped into this new resolution, I wonder why companies like Arrow are still g...
With Disney ’s current dominance at the box office, it is difficult to believe it, but they weren’t doing so well (theatrically) in the latter half of the 1980s. They had experienced, especially in th...
The last decade of the 20th Century in movies saw the pinnacle of star-powered excess-driven extravaganzas peak with Kevin Costner’ s Waterworld . One of the biggest stars in the world, at the time, h...
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...