Thoughts on some questionable film franchises…
The summer blockbuster season has prompted me to contemplate certain long-running and generally well-liked cinematic franchises – and why they even exist.
Category: Movies
“The devil wants to be prayed to”: The Return of Dr. Mabuse
The Return of Dr. Mabuse (1961) has enough unmaskings for an entire season of Scooby Doo. With the exception of Inspector Lohmann (Gert Frobe) nobody is exactly who they appear …
Another Meme Thing: Two Actors
This is just a thing people have been tagging me with, and even though they always say âYou donât have to comment,â well, I am a writer; if I canât comment, whatâs the point? After my answers ballooned up to column-size I decided to make it a column.
âHis lust for power knows no endâ: 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 …
How Star Trek: Generations could have been one of the best
Star Trek VII: Generations is probably nobodyâs favorite, probably for a number of reasons. Hereâs my take on how it could have been done better â 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 weâll 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…