If you like movies, go watch THE NINTH CONFIGURATION. (It’s streaming on Prime.) I almost don’t want to say anything about it because it’s such a unique film. It’s brilliant and terrible and confused and purposeful. It’s a mess and it always knows what it is. Things happen that have no bearing on anything else, […]
Read More The Ninth Configuration: A Mark Bousquet ReviewTONIGHT – “OFF LIMITS” (1988 / dir. – Christopher Crowe) Lately I’ve found myself defending films which weren’t necessarily critical (or even audience) darlings at the box office. Well, in all honesty not just “lately” – haha! But, hey, judging a film based on its box office (or even critical praise … or lack thereof) […]
Read More Off Limits: A Review By Craig Ellis Jamison1976 Ramana Productions/Po’ Boy Productions Directed by Fred Williamson Written by Jolivett Cato/Charles Walker Music by Coleridge Taylor-Perkinson Here’s the thing that made Fred Williamson stand out from other male Blaxploitation stars of the 1970s: even then he wasn’t satisfied with just acting in those violent action thrillers. Even then he had an eye toward […]
Read More Mean Johnny BarrowsA FALL FROM GRACE 2020 Tyler Perry Studios/Netflix Written and Directed by Tyler Perry Produced by Tyler Perry/Mark E. Swinton/Will Areu/Michelle Sneed Music by Jay Weigel Cinematography by Terrence Burke Edited by Larry Sexton You walk into a McDonald’s because you’re hungry and you don’t feel like going through the trouble of cooking for yourself […]
Read More A Fall From Grace1991 Toho Pictures Directed by Kazuki Ōmori Produced by Shōgo Tomiyama Screenplay by Kazuki Ōmori It’s World War II. The United States Navy is working their way through the Gilbert and Marshall Islands and it’s Lagos Island’s turn to take the brunt of their military might. There is a pause in the fighting, the Navy […]
Read More Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah: A Mark Bousquet Review1984 Toho Pictures Directed by Koji Hashimoto Produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka Screenplay by Shuichi Nagahara Story by Tomoyuki Tanaka Reviewer’s Note: RETURN OF GODZILLA was released in the United States a year later as GODZILLA 1985 in an edited version that, much like the original film, contained new scenes starring Raymond Burr. This review is […]
Read More Return of Godzilla: Guest Review by Mark Bousquet2019 Columbia Pictures/Bona Film Group/Heyday Films Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino Produced by Quentin Tarantino/David Heyman/Shannon McIntosh Narrated by Kurt Russell Cinematography by Robert Richardson Edited by Fred Raskin The clue to the whole movie is right there in the title. “Once Upon A Time…” is the classic opening line of all of our […]
Read More Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood1983 Universal Pictures/The Guber-Peters Company/RKO Pictures Directed by Joel Schumacher Produced by Topper Carew Screenplay by Joel Schumacher Story by Topper Carew/Joel Schumacher Music by Giorgio Moroder Cinematography by Dean Cundey Edited by David E. Blewitt Recently I was involved in a discussion in a Facebook group about the animated television show “Archer” where […]
Read More D.C. Cab2019 Thunder Road Pictures/87Eleven Productions/Summit Entertainment Directed by Chad Stahelski Produced by Basil Iwanyk/Eric Lee Screenplay by Derek Kolstad/Shay Hatten/Chris Collins/Marc Abrams Story by Derek Kolstad Music by Tyler Bates/Joel J. Richard Cinematography by Dan Laustsen Edited by Evan Schiff There’re many things I like about the “John Wick” series but the one thing near […]
Read More John Wick: Chapter 3-Parabellum2017 Summit Entertainment/Thunder Road Pictures/87Eleven Productions Directed by Chad Stahelski Produced by Basil Iwanyk/Erica Lee Written by Derek Kolstad Music by Tyler Bates/Joel J. Richard Cinematography by Dan Laustsen Edited by Evan Schiff The first “John Wick” movie has astounding action, outrageous fight scenes, enough Gun Fu to satisfy John Woo and truly amazing stunts. […]
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