One word. Wow — but since you want to read a review; I’ll write a little more. There’s a lot to say about Danny Boyle’s latest opus, I’ll do the best I can — but I recommend seeing it to do it justice. 127 Hours is the true life survival story of Aron Rolston, a free spirited man exploring the canyons of Utah. A series of events leads him
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This is an interesting pick and a good way to kick off the holiday season, the movie is called Gamebox 1.0. A low budget independent film that shines because of the talent and ambition of the directors and actually won awards for Best Screenplay and Visual Effects. I’ve actually owned the DVD for a few years now and just recently popped this bad boy in and was pleasantly surprised.
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Uwe Boll has been called “the worst director of all time” and an online petition was started to get Uwe to stop making movies. Some say terrible, I say genius, but first let me give you some background info. Uwe Boll is a German born director who first came to America with his daring and controversial film Heart Of America (2002), after that is when things went down hill.
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This was a very difficult list to put together since there is so much to choose from and so much that will get left out. With the end of the year rapidly approaching — here is my list of the Top 10 Horror Films from the last ten years. Please save your hate mail, this is my opinion and nothing concrete. These are the films that stood out from
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Obscurity is a strange beast, not only does it intrigue the masses but also creates an underground “club” if you will of those that thrive on the strange and unknown. I should know since I am a huge fan of underground cinema and the independent. So obscure that the movie actually does not exist, I am referring to the 1994 version of The Fantastic 4 produced by Roger Corman.
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The term “independent” has changed quite significantly over the years. Night Of The Living Dead was an independent film made in 1968 for a total of $114,000. Today indie films range anywhere from $1-5 Million, movies today are just more expensive today. So what about people who want to make movies who don’t have $1 million or even $10,000? Movie making is a grueling process that takes months or
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1992 was a great year; we were introduced to the one game that would change the face of video games and pop culture forever. Mortal Kombat made its debut in arcades and eventually ported onto the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo systems. This spawned a cultural phenomenon that I was personally swept into, the martial arts craze. Around the same time as Mortal Kombat was introduced we also got
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