Made on a budget barely equivalent to $1 million USD at the time, the film adaptation of Ian Fleming’s spy thriller Dr. No was very modest even by 1962 standards. Although producers Harry Saltzman and Albert “Cubby” Broccoli surely had high hopes for it, I doubt even the most optimistic of projections could have foreseen… Read More World Domination, That Same OId Dream | Dr. No (1962) 4K Ultra HD
I may have backed myself into a corner on the Film at 11 podcast a couple weeks ago. At the end of our E.T. episode, I made my son Joseph play a game where he picked a random year, from which I would then need to choose a movie for our next episode together. Joseph… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 16 | Hairspray (2007)
Confident that the Predator franchise is finally back on track, executives at 20th Century Studios greenlit not just one but two new movies for release in 2025, both shepherded by Prey director Dan Trachtenberg. The first, an animated prequel/side-story called Predator: Killer of Killers, arrived directly on Hulu streaming (as Prey had) to serve as… Read More I Pray You Bloody Your Spear Tonight | Predator: Killer of Killers (2025) on Hulu
With (arguably, but not very) only one good movie out of the six made to that time, the Predator franchise was in considerably poor shape by the early 2020s. Although the studio wasn’t ready to give up on it yet, the next installment would skip a theatrical release and debut instead on Hulu streaming. To… Read More A Hunter Doesn’t Wait | Prey (2022) 4K Ultra HD
Apparently, neither two failed direct sequels nor two failed Alien crossovers were quite enough to keep one good Predator down. Perhaps they should have been. Even though three decades of trying to turn the Arnold Schwarzenegger 1987 action classic into a sustainable franchise had not thus far worked out, someone in the studio had what… Read More Not My Space Animal | The Predator (2018) 4K Ultra HD
Is it a smart idea to let a pair of 11-year-old twins watch the PG-13 rated Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story? In the latest episode of Film at 11, we learn the hard way exactly why parental guidance may be needed for this comedy classic. I blame the kids’ school for this one. I had… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 15 | Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
In theory, the 2010 sequel Predators was supposed to do for Predator what Aliens had done for Alien – take an originally confined premise and expand it in scope and scale, then escalate the action to a new level of intensity, potentially a different genre entirely. Sadly, what we actually got was just a rote… Read More No Hunting Like the Hunting of a Man | Predators (2010) 4K Ultra HD
At one time the record-holder as most popular movie ever made, can Steven Spielberg’s E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial still win over a modern 11-year-old kid watching it for the first time today? That’s the big question we address in the latest episode of the Film at 11 podcast. This week’s movie choice comes by viewer request,… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 14 | E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Released at the very end of 1993, Tombstone arrived as the first of two back-to-back movies about legendary Wild West lawman Wyatt Earp. A competing film, simply called Wyatt Earp, directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring Kevin Costner, followed six months later in mid-1994. Much publicity was raised in the entertainment press at the time… Read More You’re a Daisy If You Do | Tombstone (1993) 4K Ultra HD
I may have made a mistake in this week’s Film at 11 podcast. I had several last-minute changes of mind about what movie to watch with my son Thomas, until I eventually settled on Jurassic Park. Mind you, this is the kid who found Gremlins a little too scary, and I thought it would be… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 13 | Jurassic Park (1993)
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