The one thing about Sam Raimi’s movies is that good or bad, very few of them age poorly. Even for a movie made in the early nineties at an age where every studio were seeking to duplicate the success of “Batman,” Raimi makes “Darkman” his own movie. It’s a superhero movie in the horror vein where our masked dark avenger is also a deformed an unhinged Frankenstein monster. Something in the vein of Brundlefly, Liam Neeson really does offer up a wildly unique and off the rails performance.
Tag Archives: Action
Lights Out (2024)
A former soldier looking for his way meets an ex-con who sees the potential in this man to become the best fighter in the underground fight world. Soon, they find themselves entangled in something much more complex and riskier. Continue reading
No Way Up (2024)
It seems like not many remember what a good survival film is, anymore, and while so many present prime opportunities for knuckle biting tension, often times they tend to fall so flat. Claudio Fäh’s “No Way Up” is a great idea for a survival thriller where the odds are deliriously stacked against a group of people. It’s just shocking that so much of this opportunity is wasted in favor of what is mostly a flat, redundant, and dull thriller. I don’t know how you take a great idea like “No Way Up” and leave it feeling like nothing is ever really fleshed out or fully developed.
Space Wars: Quest for the Deepstar (2023)
A father-daughter duo of space scavengers comes across adventures and villains as they travel the universe in search of the Deepstar.
Even More Great Minority Movie Heroes
It’s Black History Month once again and in honor of the occasion I continue the series of “Great Minority Movie Heroes” which we have been running over and over for years, now. What better occasion than Black History Month than to continue listing movie heroes that are people of color? Be sure to check out the past editions of the series and let us know what some of your favorite minority movie heroes are.
Alienoid: Return to the Future (2024)
In theaters from Well Go USA from January 26th, 2024
In this follow-up to Alienoid (2022), the story picks up where the first film ends. We get to see Lee Ahn in the far away past, stuck there, but maybe not, looking for a divine sword and a way home.
The Warriors (1979): 2-Disc Limited Edition [4K UHD]
Now Available from Arrow Video.
It’s no secret that I Love “The Warriors.” I’ve loved it for years, and I talk about it constantly. I own a massive poster, the vinyl soundtrack the entire funko pop wave, the PS2 video game, and most of the editions on DVD and Blu-Ray. It’s a movie that’s had an interesting genesis starting out as a novel, transformed in to a notorious feature film, which then became fodder for video stores and was played quite often in syndication on cable and network television. It then evolved in to a cult classic and now a more widely celebrated cult masterpiece. And rightly so.
It’s a movie that works on so many levels as a streamlined, sleek, gritty, and exciting gang picture that Walter Hill directs with pitch perfect efficiency, and it’s garnered another well deserved special release from Arrow Video.