Born On The Fourth Of July

Filmmaker, Oliver Stone, (Platoon, Natural Born Killers, JFK) is well known for making movies related to historical events about political/controversial subjects including The Vietnam War, assassination of JFK, presidential leaders, and Jim Morrison, the lead singer of The Doors. After writing screenplays for Midnight Express and Scarface, Stone went on to direct critically acclaimed films […]

Flashback Review: War Of The Worlds (2005)

In 1938, during The Great Depression, future filmmaker, Orson Welles, (Citizen Kane) was working for a radio program based on H.G. Wells’ novel “The War Of The Worlds.” Many families tuned in their radios (this was before Television was introduced) to know what was going on in the world or listen to some jazzy tunes. […]

Flashback Review: Godzilla (1998)

Fresh from the success of “Independence Day,” (one of my all-time favorite movies) filmmaker Roland Emmerich, (also known for creating the Stargate franchise) was selected as a suitable candidate to direct an American remake of a Japanese film from 1954 called “Godzilla.” A giant dinosaur like monster who wreaks havoc in Tokyo. At the time […]

Flashback Review: Hulk

Due to popular success of “X-Men,” several Hollywood Studios attempted to capitalize on the success of Fox’s first installment of the X-Men franchise and M. Night Shyamalan’s cult classic “Unbreakable,” Sony was the first to successfully earn critical and commercial success with Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man.” While some including “Daredevil,” “Catwoman,” “Fantastic Four” (2005) & “Elektra” […]

Dunkirk

In September 1st, 1939, under the orders of Adolf Hitler, Germany invaded Poland, this began a global conflict involving Allied Countries & Axis Countries, thus World War II was born. One year later, 40,000 Soldiers of The British Army were attempting to escape by using a Naval Ship, in order to evacuate from the enemy, […]

Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen

After Michael Bay’s live-action film adaptation of “Transformers” became a commercial sucess, a sequel was in development. Unfortunately, back in 2007-2008, members of the Writers Guild of America or WGA for short went on strike forcing Michael and his crew to finish the sequel without any re-writes and reshoots. “Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen” was […]