āHis lust for power knows no endā: The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Returning to Dr Mabuse almost 30 years after Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Fritz Lang gave us a film that feels very different from its predecessors. Lang returned to the series …
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How Star Trek: Generations could have been one of the best
Star Trek VII: Generations is probably nobodyās favorite, probably for a number of reasons. Hereās my take on how it could have been done better ā and possibly making it one of the better loved cinematic installments of Star Trek.
The Empire of Crime: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
If writers turn terrorist weāll all be in trouble. Writers such as Richard Condon and Robert Bloch routinely come up with scarier terrorist plots than the ones in real life. …
Into the Endgame: ‘Infinity War’ Analysis
When constructing a story, especially a visual or acted out story or simply when “breaking story” on a script, you identify the moments you need to hit. “Need” is subjective. But you identify the things you can do in a given moment that would be hard to do later. In this case, the moment you can do with god powers in play is to have Thanos win…
Some olde-tymey movies I’ve had a chance to watch recently
Let’s take a look at a bunch of old movies. Old movies rule!
‘Avengers: Infinity War’ – Spoiler-Free Review
Marvel decided to throw themselves a birthday party, and they invited everybody! Avengers: Infinity War puts the cap on 10 years of Marvel movies and sets the stage for many more to come. Bringing together the Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Dr. Strange, Black Panther, and the people of Wakanda to fight the greatest menace the universe has ever faced, the film does an amazing job of juggling multiple intersecting storylines and enough characters to fill a Greyhound bus.
‘Battle Beyond the Stars’ – The ‘Citizen Kane’ of Schlock Sci-fi
When Star Wars exploded on movie screens in 1977, it elevated sci-fi out of the low-budget B-movie ghetto in a way that 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes had tried to do and didn’t quite achieve. While those two films had the spectacular visuals, humanist allegories, and deep thoughts about the meaning of man, they lacked the slam-bang action of a great 1940s Flash Gordon movie. Star Wars showed that people would go for big dumb fun, and the race was on for the next one. In the years that followed, many studios attempted to join the “Me Too” Chorus, with Star Trek grabbing the high-end market and the original Battlestar Galactica locking up the TV audience. The low end was filled with cheesy movies featuring clumsy alien make-up and iffy blue-screen effects. 30-odd years later, one movie stands above them all as the greatest film in the crowded “cheap Star Wars knockoff” genre: ‘Battle Beyond the Stars.’