Film

I took a lot of film classes in college, and became intrigued by the history and art of cinema. So, naturally, I think I know more about film than everybody else.

Well, that’s not entirely true, but I do like to discuss movies in general. Here you’ll find some of my usual rambling focused toward the silver screen. Some of these items read like movie reviews, while others give the history of a franchise or discuss the general philosophy involved in cinema. Since television and movies are so closely linked, you’ll also find my rants and raves regarding the few TV shows I watch here and there. Comic book movies, on the other hand, get left out here for the sake of convenience, since there is already a Comic Book Rants section to deal with those.

• It’s a Kind of Magic: Watch as I provide reviews and trivia about the Highlanderfranchise while slowly breaking down due to the crappiness of the sequels.
  • Highlander
  • Highlander II: The Quickening, part one
  • Highlander II: The Quickening, part two
  • Highlander: The Series, season one
  • Highlander: The Series, seasons two through four
  • Highlander: The Series, seasons five and six
  • Highlander 1994
  • Highlander: The Raven
  • Highlander: Endgame, part one
  • Highlander: Endgame, part two
  • Highlander: Endgame, part three
  • Highlander: The Source, part one
  • Highlander: The Source, part two
  • Highlander: The Search for Vengeance
• The Phantom of the Opera:A look at the classic story by Gaston Leroux and the many adaptations that have come since.
  • The Original Novel
  • The 1925 Silent Film
  • The 1943 Film
  • The 1962 Film
  • The 1986 Musical
• Time for some Christmas Specials:In which I take a break from my bitching to enjoy some good holiday entertainment.
  • For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls
  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
  • A Very Die Hard Christmas
  • Rapture’s Delight
  • Die Hard 2
• The Best Movies that Nobody Likes: Four of the greatest films of all time…that people absolutely despise.
• The Worst Movies that I Happen to Like: And, conversely, the abolute worst movies that I still enjoy the hell out of.
• Don’t Panic…It’s an Adaptation: A movie can take liberties with the source material and still be a good film.
• The Double-Oh Agent: The history of James Bond.
• Fuck David Lynch: I said it, and I won’t unsay it.
• Hannibal the Vampire: A look at Hannibal Lecter and how he represents an evolution in the vampire myth.
• Hollywood Wants to Kill Us: Fiction is not reality. Why do people keep forgetting that?
• The Killer: Modern Shakespeare: John Woo and William Shakespeare might not be so far apart after all.
• Realism is Unrealistic: An argument against the “realism” buzzword that gets tossed around with sci-fi films.
• The Stepford Wiveses: A look at the classic film The Stepford Wives and its very different remake.
• Thundercats, Woah!: How the remake of a cartoon from the 80s went from mere nostalgia to pure awesome.
• Thundercats, No!: And on the flip side, how the comic adaptation of the original series ruined the franchise in its attempt to be “mature.”
• Ancient Spirits of Evil: One more Thundercats rant, this time about how the new Mumm-Ra provides a model for good serial villainy.