If there is any scene in The Third Man that captures the ability of Carol Reed, it is the Ferris wheel. Here Holly Martins (Joseph Cotton) meets his mysterious friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles) face-to-face for the first time.
Before their meeting inside one of the wheel’s cars, the camera is tilted left to right. As [...]

Scream is timeless. It was a perfect satire of a genre that lost any spark of originality decades before. Scary Movie doesn’t seem to understand that.
By parodying specific horror movies, Scary Movie is now hopelessly dated, and the pop culture references now terribly unfunny (as opposed to just unfunny when the movie was released). The [...]

There’s a high concept in Battle for Terra, that of a dying human race invading a planet of peaceful aliens. As the audience is introduced to Terra, it’s apparent that they’re fun loving and anti-war, but it turns out that’s not the case.
That’s a critical miscalculation of Terra. The alien species isn’t that different from [...]

In its proper form, it is not hard to see why Gojira is one of the greatest Japanese films of all time and, arguably, anywhere else in the world.
Director Ishiro Honda had one goal with the film, and he succeeded unquestionably. Shaken by what he witnessed after the Hiroshima bomb devastated his country, film became [...]

Replace the Coast Guard with basketball, football, or swimming, and you have the basic Disney formula behind The Guardian. This isn’t a revolutionary film, but it’s a story that Hollywood has surprisingly avoided, and the Coast Guard deserves way more credit than they get. Politics aside, there’s an average tale of someone going above and [...]

Black Hawk Down is barely short of two and a half hours. During that running time, audiences are given nearly two hours of gunfire, bloodshed, and brutality.
Director Ridley Scott is able to keep the audience engaged in an incredible amount of action, gunplay that in the hands of someone else would be repetitive. Black Hawk [...]

Ghost Month is the type of movie where throwing a piece of paper off screen results in glass breaking. How that balled up wad of paper could break anything glass, whether by knocking an item over or hitting a window is anyone’s guess. Of course, this is also the type of movie where cell phones [...]

Square, makers of the Final Fantasy video games, set out to make the ultimate CG film with Spirits Within. Sadly, they were apparently the only ones excited by the technology, because the film was a terrible theatrical flop sending the movie studio division into oblivion. It’s a shame, because what’s here is a technological feat [...]

Con Air is one of those movies that created a slew of action movie parodies. It’s so absurd, the dialogue so ridiculous, and the premise so utterly incoherently preposterous, you can’t help but laugh. You know what though? It’s enormously entertaining.
Con Air follows a group of the most politically correct villains in the history of [...]

From the moment King Arthur starts, you know Jerry Bruckheimer had a hand in it. Despite a fresh take on the legend, one that is supposedly realistic, the film in this director’s cut form is overlong and glossy, clashing with the atmospheric direction of Antoine Fuqua.
Clive Owen stars at the fabled King Arthur, enthusiastically portraying [...]