Magnolia

After “Boogie Nights” came out in 1997, Paul Thomas Anderson (one of my all-time favorite filmmakers) or PTA for short, commenced development of his next project titled, “Magnolia.” A drama focusing on a wide variety of troubled three-dimensional characters struggling with social problems like a bad childhood, drug addiction, greed, in debt, dying of cancer […]

The Outsiders: The Complete Novel

In 1967, author S.E. Hinton published a book titled, “The Outsiders.” Set in The 60s, a dispute between The Greasers and The Socs goes haywire when a greaser named, Ponyboy Curtis gets beat up, his friend Johnny Cade kills a Soc in self-defense. With no other choice, the pair seek somewhere safe. The novel earned […]

Tropic Thunder

During his early career, Ben Stiller worked on Steven Spielberg’s war drama “Empire Of The Sun” playing a soldier. He thought of an idea about actors filming a war movie, but unaware they’re caught in the middle of an actual war. Two Decades Later, Ben expanded his idea with the help of fellow actor/writer Justin […]

Val

We’re already familiar with Val Kilmer’s work in “Top Gun,” “The Doors,” “Tombstone,” “Batman Forever,” “Heat” & “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” but do you know him offscreen? For the first time, the actor shares us movie goers personal videos in a documentary film titled, “Val.” Val is currently streaming on Amazon Prime. It received positive […]

Rain Man

Fresh from his success starring in films such as “Risky Business,” “Top Gun” & “The Color Of Money,” Tom Cruise (one of my favorite actors of all time) became an A-List Actor in blockbusters. Today he remains as one of the highest paid actors of his generation. Back in the late 80’s, he starred in […]

Nick’s Top 12 Male Fan Casting Choices For A Christopher Nolan Film

Greetings my fellow movie goers from across the globe. Today, I proudly present my personal Top 12 Fan Casting Choices for actors I want to see in a Christopher Nolan. (my all time favorite filmmaker) Before we go into The Top 12, I want to state my reason why I’m doing this editorial blog related […]

Mission Impossible: Fallout

After Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation was a critical and box office success surrounding the Mission Impossible series, a sixth entry was in development with Tom Cruise scheduled to reprise his role as Ethan Hunt. As Christopher McQuarrie was writing the script, Tom kept himself busy by starring in films starting with Jack Reacher: Never Go […]

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

After Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol came out in 2011, a fifth film of the Mission Impossible series was in development with Tom Cruise scheduled to return, but had to postpone as he was working on Edge Of Tomorrow with Christopher McQuarrie who co-wrote the script and Doug Liman directed the picture. After working on the […]

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

After Mission Impossible III came out in 2006, the series went on a five year hiatus, Tom Cruise worked on several films starting with Lions For Lambs also starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep, (my archenemy) Valkyrie, a World War II film directed by Bryan Singer, the action war comedy Tropic Thunder, with his good […]

Flashback Review: Mission Impossible III

After Mission Impossible earned mixed reception from critics, the series went on hiatus due to Tom Cruise’s busy schedule picking one project to another beginning with reuniting with Jerry Maguire director Cameron Crowe in Vanilla Sky, then his first collaboration with Steven Spielberg in Minority Report, the epic historical drama The Last Samurai, he played […]

Flashback Review: Mission Impossible II

After Mission Impossible was a successful hit among critics and movie goers alike, Paramount Pictures was working on a sequel with Tom Cruise scheduled to reprise his role as Ethan Hunt. However, he was busy at the time working with his ex-wife Nicole Kidman in Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut and also worked with Paul […]

Flashback Review: Mission Impossible

In the year 1966, television network CBS aired a TV series called, “Mission Impossible” inspired by spy films from the decade most notably James Bond, as well as the British spy show “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” The show stars Peter Graves, (Captain Oveur from Airplane!) Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Barbara Bain & Martin Landau as […]

American Made

During The 1980’s, crime rate drastically increased involving drugs. Notorious Drug Kingpin, Pablo Escobar, was a powerful Columbian criminal earning billions of dollars by distributing cocaine, causing the U.S. government to investigate Escobar’s crime ring. Because of the war involving cocaine. President Ronald Regan and his wife, Nancy, send a televised message to the people […]

The Firm

American author/real life attorney, John Grisham, is known for writing thrillers related to the legal system. One novel that boosted his career as a novelist, is a book called “The Firm.” This was his first ever bestselling work with seven million copies bought by readers worldwide. If it weren’t for his first big hit, he would’ve […]

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. […]

The Mummy (2017)

In response to the critical & box office success of the “Marvel Cinematic Universe,” (MCU for short) major Hollywood studios are attempting to replicate the success of the Marvel movies. The following studios including Warner Bros. Pictures began to plant their own featuring characters from D.C. Comics along with another separate one called “MonsterVerse” depicting […]

Minority Report

The review of the day is a Sci-Fi Mystery film, similar to Blade Runner. Directed by Steven Spielberg, teaming up with an A list star, a living legend & one of my favorite actors of all time, Tom Cruise. Before War Of The Worlds, Minority Report was the first collaboration between Cruise & Speilberg. So […]