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Doug Liman’s Road House Remake

The movie poster for "Road House" which shows a battered and disinterested Jake Gyllenhaal sitting with his shirt hanging open at a bar.

I had Amazon Prime for a bit, when I got the free offer after making a purchase. While I had it, I decided to check out Road House, the remake of the Patrick Swayze actioner with Jake Gyllenhaal. I honestly Read more…


Total Recall (2012)

Last night I watched the Total Recall remake with my wife. I really wasn’t expecting much and was pleasantly surprised. It’s a fine actioner, but not outstanding. I would not call it a good movie. I would call it a Read more…


Space 1999 + 100

I fondly remember Space: 1999 as one of those shows I watched in syndication along with Star Trek TOS and the Starlost in order to glut my sci fi hunger back in my younger days. To my young mind, Space: Read more…


Battlestar Singer

It seems that the Byran Singer directed re-make of John Boorman’s Excalibur won’t move forward. The project has been dropped as another King Arthur project, also named Excalibur, was ready to move forward before Singer could get to work on Read more…


There Can Be Only . . . I can’t even say it.

Somewhere along the way, somebody apparently forgot the most important part of the Highlander mythos: There can be only one. Thankfully, we can ignore everything that came after, and I have a feeling I’ll be ignoring the next installment as Read more…


Adaptive Killing

Some people simply say they are fans of John Woo. I can’t say that, because I have to admit that I am not. I am a fan of John Woo’s Hong Kong heroic bloodshed movies, his pre-Windtalkers Hollywood output, and Read more…