The Under-Ranked: Green Lantern
Believe it or not, this summer has already brought us three movies based on comics or graphic novels. Some have done quite well for their franchises (Thor, X-Men: First Class) while others haven’t been...
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Getting Emotional with Movies, Part 10: Wonder
WONDER If I was going to devise an emotional spectrum for movies, I’d put Contempt on one extreme with Wonder on the other. Films that fall under Contempt tend to be the ugliest and...
Barry Levinson Teaming With Al Pacino On Multiple Films
Director Barry Levinson has been busy putting together the ambitious mob flick Gotti: Three Generations with his You Don’t Know Jack star, Al Pacino. Since director Nick Cassavetes left the project, Levinson and Bugsy...
Super 8: A Flickcharter’s Movie Review
In a small town in 1979 Ohio, four friends decide to make a zombie film together using their parent’s Super 8 camera. The four boys, along with their new co-star Alice, go out to...
Getting Emotional with Movies, Part 4: Desire
Before succumbing to Desire, explore your cerebral side with Food for Thought. DESIRE When it comes to the films that make me hot to trot, deciding on a just couple of examples is impossible. ...
Reel Rumbles #36: “The Fighter” vs. “Raging Bull”
When I decided to do a Reel Rumbles about the top 2 sports dramas, I assumed number one would be Rocky. I was wrong, but I was also stunned to see only two sports...
X-Men: First Class – A Flickcharter’s Review
Summary (from Fox): Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were archenemies, they were...
Tangled vs. The Fall of Disney Animation
Tangled, a retelling of the Rapunzel fairy tale from Walt Disney Animation Studios, did quite well for itself this past holiday season. A hit with both critics and audiences alike, it did well at...
The Under-Ranked: The Hangover Part II
It’s hard to believe that it has been two years since The Hangover was released. Todd Phillips’ comedy, starring three relatively unknown actor-comedians, rushed up the box office charts to become the most highest-grossing...
Wait, That Was Based on a Comic Book?
Ever since Batman made an obscene amount of money in 1989, Hollywood has escalated its love affair with comic books and superheroes as source material. There’s a pre-existing audience, the characters and premises are...
That the film focuses more on Kong surprises me not at all. He more closely approximates an actual character, while…
Absolutely loved "Insidious: The Red Door"! The emotional depth and intense storytelling took this franchise to a whole new level.
I liked Guardians 3. It was a good ending to the trilogy. Gunn is one of the few filmmakers who…
Top Gun and Banshees deserve all the good awards.
North Dallas Forty might be appearing an article to come ;)