The greatest surf films are those that stand the test of time to be watched again and again by surfers and non-surfers alike. They not only chronicle events as they happen, but also make history through their massive impact on…
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Sliding Doors follows the life of Helen Quilley (Gwyneth Paltrow), after she is fired from her public relations job, and on the way home she catches a train. However, this is where the film splits into a separate parallel universe…
Read More »The action movie – Early days and silent era
The basis for the action movie was formed from a variety of sources all of which pre-dated the invention of cinema. It is there in the swashbuckling stories of novelists like Alexandre Dumas and Sir Walter Scott, or the heroics…
Read More »Silent movie adventures of Douglas Fairbanks
In a relatively brief film career that lasted two decades, Douglas Fairbanks played in 49 movies, was a director, screenwriter, producer, and along with D. W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, and Mary Pickford, was one of the founders of United Artists.…
Read More »Zombie movies: A beginner’s primer
George A. Romero started the zombie sub-genre with Night of the Living Dead (1968), a brilliant film built on a shoe-string, five-hundred-thousand dollar budget (which has received an incredible $30 million dollar gross worldwide). In Night, Romero introduces us to…
Read More »10 worst movies of recent years
Rambo Stallone adds nothing new to the tough guy killer formula except an excess of gore in the disgusting Rambo. An hour is spent watching villagers brutally massacred followed by an hour of watching the “bad guys” brutally massacred. While…
Read More »Top Dance Movies of the 70s and 80s
Have a night out with old friends and bring the nostalgia back from the late 1970s and 1980s. The following are hit movies that will bring all the memories back of some popular dance movies. Saturday Night Fever This hit…
Read More »Movie Review: I Am Number Four, a teenage sc-fi
I Am Number Four, originally a teenage science fiction novel, tells the story of John Smith, a.k.a. Number Four (Alex Pettyfer – Stormbreaker, Beastly), a superpowered, human-in-appearance alien being hunted by another, more evil race of skinheaded and tattoed alien…
Read More »Movie review: An American Werewolf In London (1981)
An American Werewolf In London– John Landis didn’t direct many films. However, the films that Landis did direct (minus a few missteps here and there) are classic. From Blues Brothers to Animal House, there’s no doubt that Landis can handle…
Read More »Top 5 best movies of Brittany Murphy
Clueless (1995) Brittany Murphy’s breakthrough role. She gained a supporting part as Tai, the new girl at a Beverly Hills high school, who is taken under the wing of two popular girls, Cher (Alicia Silverstone) and Dionne (Stacey Dash). As…
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