Barton Fink (Fox’s Flops Vol. 1 #4)

Salutations fellow movie goers from around the globe. Today’s review is about a playwright who’s tasked to write a screenplay, but he’s having creative problems due to distractions in a unsanitary hotel. He meets a neighbor with a mysterious background who tries to help him bounce back his creativity. As the two become friends, tensions […]

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

In 1981, a mystery novel called, “Who Censored Roger Rabbit” opened in bookstores. The novel is set in a world when humans & cartoon characters co-exist in our reality. The story is about a private detective named, Eddie Valiant who gets dragged into a case involving cartoon character, Roger Rabbit who’s framed for a murder […]

Sin City

Fed up with Hollywood butchering his screenplays for the Robocop sequels, comic book writer, Frank Miller, (Batman: Year One, The Dark Knight Returns, 300) refuses to let Hollywood producers adapt his work, until director/writer/producer/editor/composer, Robert Rodriguez, (Mexico Trilogy, From Dusk Till Dawn, Machete) offered him a partnership on directing a faithful adaptation to “Sin City.” […]

The Dark Knight

Ladies and Gentlemen and fellow movie goers alike, today’s review is about my favorite movie of all time. I present you, The Dark Knight. A sequel to Batman Begins and the second installment of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy. After the critical and box office success of Batman Begins, Warner Bros. (WB for short) […]

Batman Begins

Let’s dive into the history on how Batman Begins was developed. In 1997, Joel Schumacher directed Batman & Robin starring George Clooney as The World’s Greatest Detective, which was a follow up to Batman Forever. It did well at the box office, but it received a massive number of negative reviews from critics, movie goers, […]

Insomnia

Fresh from the critical success of Memento. Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception, Interstellar) received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. As a result of the massive acclaim, filmmaker, Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brokovich, Ocean’s Eleven and its sequels) offered Nolan an opportunity to direct another film called “Insomnia” for a bigger […]