Tag: DTS:X

A Cockroach in Miami’s Midst Scarface is both reactionary and alarmist. Oliver Stone’s screenplay slams the Carter administrations chaotic immigration policy, induces immigrant fears, this while blaming communism’s stranglehold …

Hole in the Desert The final moments of Casino show old Vegas being torn down. Implosions send once grand buildings to rubble. Sam Rothenstein (Robert De Niro) opines about …

A Funny Sort of Day When Simon Pegg and Nick Frost finally grasp Shaun of the Dead’s zombie outbreak, Frost runs in the house and grabs a box of …

Hulking Mad Control. Everything in the Ang Lee-directed Hulk concerns control. Emotional control. Government control. A parent’s control. Memory control. It’s an interesting take on the comic book hero, …

Get Me Big Baby Yes, Hellboy II is flush with comic book, fantasy action. Sword fights and magic fights and tree fights and gun fights; Hellboy II relishes them …

Fireball Island Universal produced Backdraft, a surprise given the Disney-esque tragedy of the intro. It’s near camp. A small child looks on, star-eyed, as his father enters a burning …

Generic Fest A creepy guy stalks college-age women in Hell Fest, the slasher genre in brief. Any awards for creativity go elsewhere, particularly in a year with Halloween’s resurgence. …

Great White-Masked Menace Where 1978’s Halloween broke through cultural norms to establish a heroine, 2018’s Halloween creates a fighting victim. This is a Halloween for now, bloodier yes, but …

Kin to a Gun But one character in Kin exhibits any moral compass. That goes for everyone, even bit parts. A gas station clerk won’t let customers use the …

Stars and Strikes Forever The Dude is everything an American isn’t supposed to be. He’s a hard drinker – of White Russians, of course. His employment status is unclear, …

Dino-rama Jurassic Park III doesn’t need to exist. It’s a plotless monster movie that fails to advance the Jurassic Park story arc. Nothing that happens matters. Yet, it’s a …

Not So Lost Now, Is It? In the first act of The Lost World, rogue corporate mercenaries fly onto Site B, that hastily written plot device allowing this sequel …