Holy Land Hell (Jeruzalem, 2015)
Found Footage films always feel like an attempt to make a movie on the cheap with a hope for big returns. Ghosts are common because they are easy to fake.…
Category: Action Movies
Becoming the Bad Guy (Falling Down, 1993)
Falling Down opens with the intensely shot claustrophobic sequence of Michael Douglas stuck in traffic. Full of uncomfortable close ups and an auditory assault, the opening sequence puts you centrally…
A War This Time (Terminator: Salvation, 2009)
Six years later, the studio wanted to try and reboot the franchise. The biggest twist of the film this time around? No time travel. The beginning of a planned trilogy…
Rinse and Repeat (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, 2003)
It took nearly a decade before there was a follow-up to T2: Judgement Day. This time around, the focus is on an early 20’s John Conner. He has been living…
Twice Upon a Terminator (Terminator 2: Judgement Day, 1991)
After the Terminator, James Cameron proved it was not a fluke with the sequel to Alien, Aliens, and the Abyss. Cameron determined his idea for a sequel to the Terminator…
A Wrench In Time (The Terminator, 1984)
In 1984, James Cameron was a genre vet, but not quite the guy we think of. He had no mega-hits…yet. Cameron came up out of the Corman school and made…
Boldly Going Pt 13 (Star Trek Beyond, 2016)
After Into Darkness, Trek lost Abrams to Wars. Simon Pegg stepped up as a screenwriter with Doug Jung to try and get the Kelvin timeline back on track. The studio…
Going Boldly Pt 12 (Star Trek Into Darkness, 2013)
After a pretty successful first outing, the whole team came back. So, my hopes were riding high for another exciting Star Trek film. But early on I saw a danger…
