Based on the popular video game of the same title, MAX PAYNE is actually better than the majority of the video game made films, which really isn’t saying much. I read an article where some of the actors in the film had no idea the script was based on a video...
Well the final chapter to “The Matrix” films is not as good as the first or second film, but it still holds it’s own, I think most people will be disappointed with the ending, I really didn’t care but it felt as if the film was left open for...
“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man” –Samuel Johnson If you had to be either a mushroom or nothing, which would you choose? This is what famed Japanese director Ishirô Honda asks his audience by the climax of Matango. Granted, a...
Kenneth Branagh’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (still with me?), attempts to fashion another version of the classic gothic novel to little argumentative point aside from theatricality (verses cinematically) painting a gothic canvas. The work posits everything including...
Not unsurprisingly, the latest balls-to-the-wall, unflinchingly graphic horror film to emerge from France (following IRREVERSIBLE, INSIDE, FRONTIERES, et al) originated from its writer-director’s own deep depression, though a final dedication to Dario Argento suggests...
For some reason I could not get into this film at all, In fact looking beyond all the gore and cool looking effects of this film I found the story to be quite boring. It’s kind of like the Asian version “House of Wax” in a way. the story are not that...
