Released in the highly-competitive 1999 fall movie season against dozens of good-to-great films from other major artists, Steven Soderbergh’s modest crime thriller The Limey slipped through the cracks and drew little attention. Although kindly received by critics, it made no money and, even a couple decades later, remains one of the director’s least-seen works. Yet… Read More You Tell ‘im I’m Coming | The Limey (1999) 4K Ultra HD
I feel like I should be enjoying HBO’s latest prestige series The Last of Us a lot more than I actually am. I want to like this show, and don’t get me wrong, I don’t actively dislike it. As expected of the network, the program has excellent production values. It also has well-drawn, appealing characters… Read More HBO’s The Last of Us Doesn’t Make Any Damn Sense
Filmmaker Rian Johnson has had quite a journey from being the pariah of Star Wars fandom just a few years ago to a celebrated auteur and Oscar nominee. Hot on the heels of the successful Netflix run for his feature Glass Onion, Johnson’s new TV series Poker Face premiered on Peacock, garnering a lot of… Read More Thinking About the Angles | Poker Face (2023) Peacock Series Premiere
The new Hulu comedy series Extraordinary finally acknowledges something that I bet a lot of people feel these days: Super powers have gotten to be boring. Coming from Disney, the entertainment giant whose coffers are overflowing with revenue from its Marvel division, that’s actually a very bold attitude to take. In these days when superhero… Read More Are You Looking to Start Your Power Journey Today? | Extraordinary Season 1 (2023) on Hulu
Not only was Top Gun a massive blockbuster hit during the summer of 1986, the film remained so popular over the years that, when Paramount went looking for titles from its catalog to convert into 3D during that format’s revival in the early 2010s, of course Top Gun shot to the top of the list.… Read More The Need for Speed | Top Gun in 3D (Blu-ray)
Culture often seems to move in thirty-year cycles. Growing up back in the 1980s, it felt like nostalgia for the 1950s was everywhere, as my parents’ generation hit middle age and started pining for their own youths. Now here we are another three decades hence, only to find the United States in a renewed Cold… Read More Don’t Think, Just Do | Top Gun: Maverick (2022) 4K Ultra HD
With all the hype and hoolpa over Tom Gun: Maverick last year, did everyone somehow forget that Top Gun already had a sequel? Released way back in 1989, Top Gun: The Second Mission continues the adventures of ace fighter pilot Maverick as he blasts enemies out of the sky in 8-bit aerial combat on the… Read More 8-Bit Replay | Top Gun: The Second Mission (1989) for NES
There was once a time when I followed the annual Oscars race with great interest and excitement. I even went so far as to live-blog the damn ceremony a few times at my last gig. These days, however, I can barely give a damn. I didn’t even realize the nominations would be announced this week… Read More Everything Oscars All at Once | 2023 Oscar Nominations
By the end of 1987, Top Gun had already been a blockbuster hit in theaters the year before and a bestseller on videocassette that spring. Any self-respecting 13-year-old had already watched it a bunch of times, to the point of wearing out the tape replaying the aerial combat scenes over and over again. With no… Read More 8-Bit Replay | Top Gun (1987) for NES
The biggest blockbuster hit of 1986 and one of the most (if not the most) iconic films from that decade, Top Gun has remained enduringly popular over time – enough so that a sequel released 36 years later once again blew the roof off the theatrical box office. Is it actually a good movie, though?… Read More Take My Breath Away | Top Gun (1986) 4K Ultra HD
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