The Watchers

Prior to a film adaptation, author, A.M. Shine published a book titled, “The Watchers.” It’s about an American immigrant living in Ireland named, Mina. She’s sent by her manager to deliver a parrot to a zoo. As she travels to her destination, her car breaks down. Trapped in the middle of a forest, something sinister […]

Shrek the Third

Thanks to the critical and commercial success of the first two “Shrek” movies, DreamWorks worked on a third installment of the series known as, “Shrek the Third.” Following the announcements of big threequels “Spider-Man 3,” “The Bourne Ultimatum” & “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,” Jeffrey Katzenberg ordered the Cast and Crew to work […]

Flashback Review: Daredevil: Director’s Cut

In the mid ’90s, superhero movies started to fade in terms of quality. DC Comics based movies such as “Steel” & “Batman and Robin” almost made movie goers walk away from the genre. Thanks to Wesley Snipes’ “Blade,” encourging movie goers to see superhero movies again, movie studios like 20th Century Fox (pre-Disney purchase) bought […]

Blade Runner: The Final Cut

In 1968, science fiction novelist, Philip “Phil” K. Dick (A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report) published a book titled, “Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep?” Set in a neo-noir dystopian world where animals are nearly extinct, a bounty hunter named, Rick Decker is assigned to track down six androids (Andy for short) who escaped from Mars. […]

Flashback Review: The Benchwarmers

2006 had some good comedies including “Idiocracy,” Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny,” “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” and one of my all-time favorites, “Borat.” Although many movie goers laughed their butts of praising them, they had to endure unfunny stinkers like “The Shaggy Dog,” “Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties” and the […]

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

After “Avengers: Endgame” closes Tony Stark & Steve Rogers’ story arcs in “The Infinity Saga,” Ryan Coogler (Creed) began development of a follow-up to “Black Panther” with Chadwick Boseman reprising his role as T’Challa. Sadly, Chadwick died from colon cancer. His untimely death became a gut-wrenching experience for Ryan and his crew. Chadwick’s friends, colleagues […]