Flashback Review: Ocean’s 11 (2001)

In the year 1960, a heist comedy called, “Ocean’s 11” starring The Rat Pack, a group of actors/singers/comedians led by Frank Sinatra, his pals Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Joey Bishop & Peter Lawford. The film is about a thief named Danny Ocean, (played by Frank Sinatra) who recruits a band of thieves (played by […]

Action Point (Paramount’s Flops Vol.1 #3)

With Spring characters coming to a close, we move on to The Summer Of 2018 starting with a comedy about an owner of an unsafe amusement park without safety rules, adult supervision & inexperienced employees lacking full responsibility, resulting in hazardous consequences. The Premise I’m referring to is from “Action Point.” Loosely based on a […]

Star Wars: Solo (Disney’s Flops Vol. 1 #7)

After the critical and box office success surrounding “Star Wars: Rogue One,” Disney & Lucasfilm brainstorm several possibilities to focus on spin-off films. So far, they’ve confirmed that they’re working on proposed anthology films about Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Lando Calrissian & Boba Fett, which I strongly support as a lifelong fan of the series, because […]

Boys Don’t Cry

In late 1993, Brendan Teena/Teena Brandon, a transman/lesbian was a victim of a crime that eventually became a tragedy. Two Years Later, first time filmmaker Kimberly Peirce (Stop-Loss, 2013 remake of Carrie) made a short film called, “Boys Don’t Cry” about the life of Brandon before Kim expanded it as a full length motion picture […]

Deadpool 2

After the critical and financial success surrounding Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds, producer Simon Kinberg and other producers at Fox, immediately begin development on a sequel to the first entry based on the title character. Besides co-producing the first film, he got promoted as a co-writer to write the screenplay for the sequel gaining more creative control […]

Deadpool

Inspired by Bugs Bunny, Dark House Comics’ The Mask, Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry films & DC Comics supervillain Slade Wilson/Deathstroke, comic book writer/artist Rob Liefield, created a character named Wade Wilson, A.K.A. “Deadpool.” The character made his first appearance in 1991 in an issue called “The New Mutants” number 98. His debut is about him […]