The original Jurassic Park was a best-selling novel about genetic engineering used on dinosaurs by the prolific novelist/filmmaker Michael Crichton. The book was turned into a movie by Steven Spielberg as an adventure romp that tackled some of the elements in Crichton’s excellent book, including...

Blood: The Last Vampire is my second Japanimation in as many days. Blood is a cinematic feature that runs just over 45 minutes long. In Japan, this would be akin to a movie-of-the-week, since animation is considered a movie art form there, not just another weekend morning cartoon show as it is here in...

Thirty minutes into Ring 2 and my only thoughts were, “The director really shouldn’t have hired a woman with a bum leg to play the female lead.” This thought surfaced because of the female lead’s complete lack of personality and inability to invoke enthusiasm. The actress playing...

At one point during the first Scary Movie, a penis is shoved through a bathroom stall, enters a character’s ear and exits the other ear. This is a hilarious sight gag, rather you enjoy lowbrow humor or not. Fortunately, I sometimes like lowbrow humor, and laughed my proverbial buttocks off at the...

Ghosts of Mars is officially called John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars. This is because John Carpenter is a horror fan favorite, and the horror fans are a group of people who are known for their fanatical dedication to the genre regardless of quality (or lack thereof). Ghosts of Mars has an intriguing...

Credits are a strange thing. The credits that roll after the stars’ names have flashed are inconsequential to the moviegoing public. Hence, most people have no idea who, or what, a “Line Producer” is. A Line Producer, in short, is the man who controls the purse strings of a movie’s...

There is an infamous tradition in Hong Kong cinema to take Hollywood movies and turn them into Chinese movies. Jet Li did it with The Bodyguard from Beijing, which converted the Kevin Costner movie, The Bodyguard. There are a host of other movies, too numerous to mention. Most of the times these “conversions”...

“Cube” is a strange, but good, movie. It’s one of the more creative movies I’ve seen in a long time. The film is Canadian in origin, and was finished, I believed, with the help of money raised to help Canadian filmmakers. I’m sure there’s a name for this particular...