Face/Off

After completing separate projects, “Broken Arrow” & “The Rock,” John Travolta & Nicolas “Nic” Cage signed on to play hero and villain in a John Woo action-adventure movie originally considered as a dream movie with Sylvester Stallone & Arnold Schwarzenegger duking it out. Due to scheduling conflicts of the pair’s solo projects, “Cop Land” and […]

Leaving Las Vegas

In 1990, John O’Brien published semi-autobiographical novel titled, “Leaving Las Vegas.” After losing his job, family and close friends, screenwriter, Ben Sanderson heads to Las Vegas where he intends to ingest alcohol every day until he dies. Ben meets a prostitute named, Sera. Together, they form a romantic relationship. After John died in 1994, MGM […]

Heat

In 1989, film director, Michael Mann directed a TV movie titled, “LA Takedown.” Intended as a pilot episode for an NBC series, the movie follows police detective, Vincent Hanna tracking down bank robber, Patrick McLean and his posse. After the TV movie aired, NVC cancelled plans to produce a series after Michael refuses to replace […]

Gamer’s Review: Super Mario 64

“It’s a me, Mario!” – Mario Back in the early 1990s, Japanese video game developer, Shigeru Miyamoto pitched an idea to make a three-dimensional Mario game comparing the concept as miniature trains coming to life. In 1993, the year I was born, Nintendo showed a demonstration of a talking 3D polygon of Mario’s head at […]

Gamer’s Review: Goldeneye

“Ever wonder what it’s like to be 007?” – Video game trailer announcer. Thanks to the critical and commercial success of Pierce Brosnan first entry as James Bond in “Goldeneye,” Rare co-founder, Tim Stamper became interested in developing a video game based on the film. Originally planned as a 2D platform like Mario, Mr. Stamper […]

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

In 1989, manga artist/writer, Masamune Shirow published a manga series for Kodansha titled, “Ghost in the Shell.” Set in a futuristic version of Tokyo, Japan in 2029, the manga follows a female cyborg named, Motoko Kusanagi. She works for a law enforcement agency filled with former military veterans and police officers assigned to do whatever […]