I thought I’d give my son Thomas a break on the Film at 11 podcast this week. Rather than forcing him to watch another old movie from the 1970s or 1980s with cheesy special effects he likely wouldn’t appreciate, I picked for him the 2014 Tom Cruise sci-fi action epic Edge of Tomorrow. I knew… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 48 | Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
For this week’s edition of the Film at 11 podcast, I not only introduce one of my sons to Apollo 13 as the movie celebrates its 30th anniversary, I also force myself to rewatch and re-evaluate a picture I think I judged unnecessarily harshly in the past. I’ve long found myself out of step with… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 30 | Apollo 13 (1995)
Five sequels, a couple TV spinoffs, and innumerable viewings later, The Terminator is no longer the same movie it was forty years ago. What started as a scrappy, low-budget thriller made by a relatively unknown young director desperate to prove himself, has transformed into the first cog in a popular and long-running franchise, as well… Read More You’re Dead, Honey | The Terminator (1984) 4K Ultra HD
Originally intended as a direct-to-video production, the 1992 crime thriller One False Move received so much advance praise from critics that distributor I.R.S. Releasing (the short-lived film branch of music label I.R.S. Records) opted to give it a limited theatrical run first. While the movie ultimately made only a pittance at the box office, it… Read More Welcome to Star City, Boys | One False Move (1992) Criterion Collection 4K Ultra HD
I’ve watched James Cameron’s Aliens countless times over the years. I own numerous copies of it across multiple home video formats. As far as I’m concerned, Aliens is a nearly perfect movie, as as a sequel or taken on its own. The film takes everything that was great about the original Alien, expands it in… Read More State of the Badass Art | Aliens (1986) 4K Ultra HD
One of the biggest blockbuster hits of 1994, and a movie still well-remembered and well-liked by most viewers almost three decades later, True Lies is a sad case of a piece of popular art that has fallen victim to its creator’s indifference toward it. Now seventeen years into the Blu-ray era, True Lies remains absent… Read More It’s Not Like He’s Saving the World or Anything | True Lies (1994) HD Streaming Comparisons
I have a soft spot for Predator 2, even if the movie may fail pretty badly at its intended purpose as the sequel to a bona fide action masterpiece. Taken on its own, as a schlocky B-movie about a grizzled urban cop fighting a superhuman hunter from outer space, the picture has a lot of… Read More A New Player in Town | Predator 2 (1990) 4K Ultra HD
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