Straight from DVD: 3:10 to Yuma
What is real strength? Is it the outlaw, taking the easy money and women, and living down to the harsh, low vicissitudes of a lawless society? Or is it the man willing to swallow pride and respect to...
View ArticleLook back or look ahead: The Fast and the Furious
Movies that move culture are rare. A gift and oddity that rests in the influential – that rare moment of timing, correct pieces and mustering of talent, to create something that moves someone else,...
View ArticleStraight from DVD: Marley and Me
That purveyor of human/canine relationships, Marge Schott – when she wasn’t busy spitting racial epithets – said there were two kinds – dog people and everybody else. Apparently, there are a lot of...
View ArticleTop Five of the Summer
A quick look at five of the movies I’m most looking forward to this summer. The real challenge will be coming up with five. Lets shoot. 1. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Not sure if I’m wild and...
View ArticleMovie Review: Star Trek
William Shatner’s opening bombardment in his infamous Saturday Night Live skit was a proper summation of the utter geekery that is the Star Trek universe. “You took something I did as a lark on...
View ArticleStraight from DVD: Taken
In honor of the DVD release of the biggest butt-kicking film bonanza of 2009, here’s a re-post of my review of “Taken” from earlier this year. ——————————————— Liam Neeson and Taken bring to life a...
View ArticleMovie Review: Up
What a wonderful place the Pixar studio must be. Imagine a giant floating factory, with kaleidoscope walls, three or four giant helicopter propellers, and a big slide meandering from the top to the...
View ArticleJohnFN’s last five movies, maybe six …
What’s been on the tube in the FNWayne household? Plenty of college baseball, a little Reds and Red Sox, AMC, TMC and a flick or two. Besides “Up,” here’s the last movies I’ve viewed. Some were...
View ArticleMovie Review: The Hangover
Somewhere in Hollywood lies a gated mansion where all the cool kids hang out – it’s the Comedy Pantheon, and on the right you see “Caddyshack,” on the left “Animal House” and “Blazing Saddles is...
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