With Django Unchained, Tarantino, as is his style, mashes together many different influences to create something both unique, yet familiar at the same time if you’re a genre film fan. Here he sets a Spaghetti Western, a sub-genre rich with mythos ...

THE GOOD... Tone - For me one of the biggest improvement's this movie has over the original trilogy is tone. The Sam Raimi movies were very light hearted and whimsical, with a lot of wink wink and tongue in...

The Production History - First Blood is one those movies with an interesting production history. It was based on a book released in 1972 by author David Morrell about a Vietnam Vet who comes home and goes on a killing spre...

WATCHMEN is one of the most important comics of the last 20+ years. It not only helped elevate comic books as a storytelling medium, but changed the genre of superheroes by asking such questions as what if these kinds of characters really e...

I spent most of my last review for Batman Begins talking about what I love about Nolan's vision of this world, so here I'm gonna spend some time talking about the character portrayals and what I think makes them great in my opinion. So buckle up g...

The Grounded Reality - I'll start by addressing something controversial among some fans, the more grounded take on Batman that the Nolan films depict. First of all it's not all that "realistic", it still has a big fantasy component to it. T...

My likes and dislikes of both of Burton's adaptations are pretty much the same. Once again were treated to a dazzling visual feast, but with little mind paid to the long established lore. Batman Returns is really more of a Tim Burton movie, than a...

THE GOOD Visuals - The real strong point of this movie is the visual aesthetic. Tim Burton excels in this area, and his cartoonish B movie gothic horror visual style compliments the material beautifully. There are...

SPOILER FREE Outside of the Batman franchise this is hands down my favorite Nolan movie. The cast, the story, the setting, everything is just pitch perfect. I absolutely love this movie. Christian Bale is great as usual,...

There are some movies that maybe only come around once in a decade that not only changes the way a certain genre is looked at, but sets the standard and raises the bar for all movies that follow. The Matrix was the movie that did just that for the...

PLANNING TO REVIEW THIS ENTIRE SERIES AT SOME POINT. Well, I'm not a big city lawyer what wit all dat fancy book learnin', nor a very good reviewer, but here's some of my inane ramblings about this movie. So sit back, and shut your crack until ...