Movie Review: Pacific Rim Jul12

Movie Review: Pacifi...

I enjoyed the show, what’s not to like about large lizards from a worm hole come to destroy earth’s occupants. They meet with Charlie Hunnam (from Sons of Anarchy) playing Raleigh Becket and his brother Diego Klattenhoff playing Yancy Becket… They both...

RIP Ray Harryhausen

The world of film has lost a legend, and many of us have lost a bit of our childhood.  American stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen has passed away in London.  He was 92. Before Industrial Light and Magic, Harryhausen was the Master of Monsters, best known for the skeletons in...

What Makes a Good Movie: Writing or Special Effects? Jul30

What Makes a Good Mo...

Let me start off by saying I am a hard-core fan of special effects. Now with that said, the question that I bring to the table tonight is, “Do special effects make a good movie, or does a good story make a good movie?” Bringing this all to light for me was HBO last night showing...

A Day Long Remembered: 35 Years of Star Wars May24

A Day Long Remembere...

On May 25, 1977, the worlds of science fiction and fantasy collided, and everything changed.  The classic era of adventure serials merged with state-of-the art visual effects and advances in sound technology, kickstarting a pop culture phenomenon that would define a...