Category : Movies

‘clerks’: the Passion of Kevin Smith

November 21st, 2008 by admin | 0

andrew.regan.2006@googlemail.com asked:

Kevin Smith’s ‘Clerks’, released in 1994 and now considered a modern-day classic, started off as an idea while Smith was an employee at the Quick Stop convenience store and RST Video in his native New Jersey. Inspired by Richard Linklater’s ‘Slacker’, the ‘Divine Comedy’ by Dante Algihieri and Smith’s own experience of working [...]

Film Review: Heavy Metal 2000

September 19th, 2008 by admin | 0

Kevin L. Powers asked: 1981’s Heavy Metal is a classic in American animation that broke new ground in animation for adults rather than pander to the children’s market dominated by the latest Walt Disney and Don Bluth film. The original film was an anthology of stories adapted from the graphic novel that reveled in stories [...]

Film Review: Darkman 2: the Return of Durant

September 16th, 2008 by admin | 0

Kevin L. Powers asked:

It’s been four years since Peyton Westlake (now played by Arnold Vosloo) became the Darkman of the city streets. A man who haunts the night stopping crime where ever it may be and using the funds gathered to further his research into creating a permanent synthetic skin that will one day [...]

Film Review: Commando

August 22nd, 2008 by admin | 0

Kevin L. Powers asked: Arnold Schwarzenegger did a lot of forgettable films in the ‘80s and this is one of them. It’s wafer thin plot of an ex-commando trying to save his daughter from old buddies who have turned on him has been used a million takes (and will continue to be until the end [...]

Film Review: Mr. Brooks

March 24th, 2008 by admin | 0

Kevin L. Powers asked: There have been few serial killer films this year that warrant a glimpse – Perfume, The Story of a Murderer and Zodiac and Behind the Mask are but a few, but with Mr. Brooks serial killers hit back harder then they have in some time. Unlike the cluttered Hannibal Rising, Mr. [...]

Film Review: Raw Deal

March 24th, 2008 by admin | 0

Kevin L. Powers asked: Being an ‘80s action film there is not much to say about the plot other than a good misunderstood cop goes undercover to bring down a Mafioso character in order to avenge the death of a friend’s son and clear his own name. The thing that made this film such a huge [...]

Film Review: Darkman 3: Die Darkman Die

January 2nd, 2008 by admin | 0

Kevin L. Powers asked: You can never keep a Darkman down as Peyton Westlake (Arnold Vosloo) returns to vanquish evil in DARKMAN III: DIE DARKMAN DIE. Continuing from where the previous film left off, Westlake is still trying to find a permanent synthetic skin but this time he thinks he may be on to something [...]