Flashback Review: Star Wars: Attack Of The Clones

After “The Phantom Menace” was released worldwide, George Lucas immediately begins a follow up called “Attack Of The Clones.” Lucas wrote the script in 2000, based on his notes he was writing at the time he was working on “The Original Trilogy.” He finished writing it, thus, the project was being developed for two years. […]

Flashback Review: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

In 1983, George Lucas, ended Luke Skywalker’s journey on a high note in Return Of The Jedi, the third entry of The Original Trilogy. During production of The Empire Strikes Back, Lucas wrote a truckload Of notes on crafting an origin story involving Darth Vader’s past, unfortunately, he called it quits, due to the fact […]

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” […]