Movie Rewind

1986’s comedy “Club Paradise” had all the fixings to join the ranks of the many great 80’s comedies. With delays, production and script problems, casting changes and becoming a failure at the box office. “Club Paradise” had become one of the biggest forgotten comedies of the golden age of comedies.  Directed and co-written by actor Harold Ramis and co-written by …

If it already hasn’t been said then after 30 years, I’ll gladly do the honors. John Singleton’s “Boyz N The Hood” is one of the greatest filmmaking debuts in movie history and one of the finest films period. “Boyz N The Hood” is a film that any veteran filmmaker would be proud of, but to be a debut for a …

I remember seeing the tv spot for “The Frighteners” like it was yesterday. I was 11 years old when the movie came out in July of 1996. I had already been the biggest fan in he world of “Back To The Future” and I had already been following Michael J. Fox’s career from both his time on “Family Ties” and …

The story of 2001’s “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” is an interesting one. If you look at it, it’s no surprise that “A.I.” is a masterpiece of science fiction cinema within the last two decades. But it’s such a masterpiece and flawless film, because of it’s collaboration between two of our greatest filmmaking minds: Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick.  “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” …

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 …