Movie Rewind

Before “The Rocketeer” became one of the most underrated comic book movies of all time. The character is an homage to the Saturday matinee serial heroes from the 1930s through the 1950s and created by writer and artist Dave Stevens, where “The Rocketeer” had its genesis in a backup story in “Starslayer”, a fantasy comic by independent publisher Pacific Comics. …

In 1987, “Lethal Weapon” became a prime example of what the perfect buddy-cop formula could be. Many films came before it and many came after it, but “Lethal Weapon” would be the one to define the eighties. A year before the release of “Lethal Weapon” Billy Crystal and the late Gregory Hines gave the buddy-cop genre a shot themselves in …

Australian director, writer and producer Baz Luhrmann has dabbled in all areas of the entertainment industry including: film, television, opera, theatre, music and recording industries. He is regarded by many as an auteur for his distinct recognizable style and deep involvement in the writing, directing, design and musical components to all his films. I personally love Luhrman as a filmmaker …

In May 2021, Director Ron Howard has two reasons to celebrate his past works. His 2006 thriller “The Da Vinci Code” is celebrating it’s 15th anniversary (May 19th) and his firefighter thriller “Backdraft” is reaching it’s 30th birthday on May 24th. Two very different films that are perfect examples of why Ron Howard has become one of Hollywood’s greatest filmmakers. …

I really admire and appreciate great filmmakers and the amount of visionaries that are on that list, both past and present are endless. One of the filmmakers on that list that I have extreme admiration for is actor turned director Ron Howard. His forty four years as a filmmaker have been nothing but impressive and I have yet to see …

Only a few actors have been able to sustain a single ongoing franchise more so than Vin Diesel (with the “Fast & Furious” saga) or Tom Cruise. For the actor and stunt man, the “Mission Impossible” franchise has proved with it’s most recent entry with 2018’s “Fallout”. That more than two decades after the former ‘60s TV spy show had …

1986’s “8 Million Ways To Die” had everything to be the next L.A. crime noir of it’s time and become a bona fide box office success. It starred Jeff Bridges (son of “SeaHunt” star Lloyd Bridges), who was coming off a string of successful films including “Against All Odds”, “StarMan” and “Jagged Edge”. Bridges was also four years past his …

Any new film from Michael Mann is a cause for celebration, whether it’s one of his masterpieces (“Heat”) or one that flies under the radar (“Manhunter”, “Public Enemies”). While he earns the term filmmaking god, just from directing one movie alone. His  magnum opus “Heat”, that saw screen legends Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino go head to head for the first …

The list of actors who have been considered for the part of James Bond’s 007 is huge. It included: Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Hugh Jackman, Clint Eastwood, Idris Elba, Tom Hiddleston and Burt Reynolds. But have you ever thought about Hannibal Lector? Well maybe not Lector himself but the man who famously played the cannablistic doctor Sir Anthony Hopkins. He’s …

By 1991, the buddy cop and mis matched partner set-up had already taken off and had become a profitable, but a formula that was slowly fizzing out. Surely the most popular of them were 1987’s “Lethal Weapon”, that went on to spawn three sequels. Then there was “48 Hours”, “Running Scared”, “Tango & Cash”, “Midnight Run” and “The Last Boy …