Tag: Movies
How Dare Real Life Intrude Into My Fantasy! Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
You’re George Lucas: you’ve just created what other filmmakers only dream of doing and so rarely accomplish – creating a cultural phenomenon. Audiences loved it,…
Filmotomy Podcast 95: Let’s Talk About Star Wars
With the imminent release of Episode IX of the 40 year old Star Wars saga, The Rise of Skywalker, we decide this is a perfect…
The One That Started It All: Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
Greetings, you stuck-up, scruffy-looking nerf herders! As the final chapter of the Skywalker Saga hits theaters with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, my Master,…
The AFI Announce their Top Ten in Film and Television
The American Film Institute declared their top ten lists for achievements in film and television for 2019. Due to being outside of the American-made format,…
Film Review: Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman – now on Netflix
Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated mob saga The Irishman, starring Robert De Niro as the late mob assassin Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran (1920-2003) is a dream…
Dear Marvel Fans: Do You Even Like Cinema?
Dear Marvel Fans, I hope you read this letter with the utmost respect, as I certainly don’t mean to insult your intelligence. I’ve noticed on…
Film Road to Halloween: The Horror Masterpiece that is The Exorcist (1973)
Often I wonder with a kind of disappointed enthusiasm, what it was like to actually be around to see some of cinema’s greatest motion pictures…
Film Road to Halloween: There’s No Film Quite Like Possession (1981)
Possession opens in West Berlin, the crosses implanted into the ground to commemorate the dead, and the dividing wall very much a part of the…
Film Road to Halloween: Angst (1983) Will Leave You Creepily Shaken And Stirred
As noted back when we did our Year in Film series last year, there’s a general feel about 1983. That the commercial film world took…
Film Road to Halloween: 10 Films from the last 5 years to Darken your Halloween
During the course of the lead up to Halloween, my Greek wife asks me many a time – is anyone covering this movie or that…
Film Road to Halloween: The Wolf Man (1941)
The road to Halloween is paved with good films. Wherein we countdown to the spirited season with a hundred doses of horror. 1 day to…
Film Road to Halloween: The Uninvited (1944)
The road to Halloween is paved with good films. Wherein we countdown to the spirited season with a hundred doses of horror. 1 day to…
Film Road to Halloween: Wounds (2019)
The road to Halloween is paved with good films. Wherein we countdown to the spirited season with a hundred doses of horror. 2 days to…
‘Game of Thrones’ showrunners David Benioff & D.B. Weiss exit their planned ‘Star Wars’ trilogy
Today, ‘Game of Thrones’ now-infamous showrunners, David Benioff & D. B. Weiss have decided to exit their work on a planned trilogy of ‘Star Wars’…
