The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic made quite a few people remember the many outbreak films Hollywood has made. It made me remember “Demolition Man”. Of course, it wasn’t for the main plot point of the movie – a violent cop and a violent criminal are cryogenically frozen, and are brought back…
I’ll admit it. Many of the films I enjoyed as a child were supremely influenced by a PBS show called “Sneak Previews” with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. They left the show in 1982 and went to network syndication with “At the Movies”. “Sneak Previews” continued without them and never…
How the hell did this cost $65 million? That’s almost as much as it cost to make “The Rock” the same year, and that got us Sean Connery, Nicholas Cage and Ed Harris, and it got the studio more than twice that at the box office. But darn it, I…
Once in a while, a movie comes along that was decades ahead of its time. That’s “Nighthawks”. Perhaps it’s better to say it was caught between eras. “Nighthawks” is a Sylvester Stallone vehicle that should’ve performed better than it did. It paired Sly with Billy Dee Williams as New York…
If there was a time when the world was turning upside down, it was the 60s and 70s. The turmoil from Vietnam to Watergate made many question the things Americans relied on for decades. That anti-establishment arc found its way into many films. Sometimes it was overt, like in films…