Please Stand By

In October 2017, (same year Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk came out) Dallas Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban and his film company “Magnolia Pictures,” distributed a film titled, “Please Stand By” shown in several films festivals such as one located in Austin, Texas. Which is the state I’m actually from. Three Months Later, the film was eventually released […]

Now Is Good

In 2007, British author, Jenny Downham published a book titled, “Before I Die.” The story centers around a girl named, Tessa who’s dying from leukemia. Knowing that her internal clock is ticking, she decides to write a bucket list of things to do such as committing a crime, (not something of off Michael Mann’s Heat) […]

Halloween (1978)

Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho as arguably the quintessential slasher movie that paved the way of deranged homicidal villains in cinema history, filmmaker John Carpenter (Escape From New York, The Thing, (1982) Big Trouble In Little China) directed a film as a spiritual successor to Hitchcock’s signature picture about a deranged psychopath who escapes from […]

Pulp Fiction

After releasing his first full length feature film called Reservoir Dogs, legendary filmmaker, Quentin Tarantino, (also known for Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained) went on a vacation to Amsterdam, to come up with another script besides True Romance and Natural Born Killers which were already in the hands of Tony Scott & Oliver Stone, […]

Heathers

In the late 80’s a film called Heathers, a Black Comedy film about a high schooler who’s caught up in a murder involving her frenemy, was released in cinemas earning a lot of critical praise. However, the movie itself failed to earn a profit at the box office. Despite financial failure, Heathers went on to […]

Memento

At the end of “The 20th Century,” many events triggered in the year 2000, the presidential election between George W. Bush & Al Gore. The Y2K incident at first, was gonna become a nuclear holocaust, but it didn’t happen. AOL was purchased by Time Warner for $162 billion. Dora The Explorer made its TV debut […]